Overcoming Intensity Saturation in Nonlinear Multiple-Quantum-Well Metasurfaces for High-Efficiency Frequency Upconversion

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Veröffentlicht in:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). - 1998. - 35(2023), 34 vom: 15. Aug., Seite e2106902
1. Verfasser: Nefedkin, Nikita (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Mekawy, Ahmed, Krakofsky, Jonas, Wang, Yongrui, Belyanin, Alexey, Belkin, Mikhail, Alù, Andrea
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2023
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Schlagworte:Journal Article multiple quantum well metasurfaces nonlinear optical devices sum-frequency generation
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520 |a Engineered intersubband transitions in semiconductor heterostructures featuring multiple quantum wells (MQWs) are shown to support record-high second-order nonlinear susceptibilities. By integrating these materials in metasurfaces with tailored optical resonances, it is possible to further enhance photonic interactions, yielding giant nonlinear responses in ultrathin devices. These metasurfaces form a promising platform for efficient nonlinear processes, including frequency upconversion of low-intensity thermal infrared radiation and harmonic generation, free of phase-matching constraints intrinsic to bulk nonlinear crystals. However, nonlinear saturation at moderately large pump intensities due to the transfer of electron population into excited subbands facilitated by strongly enhanced light-matter interactions in metasurfaces fundamentally limits their overall efficiency for various nonlinear processes. Here, the saturation limits of nonlinear MQW-based metasurfaces for mid-infrared frequency upconversion are significantly extended by optimizing their designs for excitation with a strong pump coherently coupled with unpopulated upper electron subbands. This counterintuitive pumping scheme, combined with tailored material and photonic engineering of the metasurface, avoids saturation at practical levels of continuous-wave pump intensities, yielding significantly larger upconversion efficiencies than in conventional approaches. The present results open new opportunities for nonlinear metasurfaces, less limited by saturation mechanisms, with important implications for night-vision imaging and compact nonlinear wave mixing systems 
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700 1 |a Belyanin, Alexey  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Belkin, Mikhail  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Alù, Andrea  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
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