Vertical Second Harmonic Generation in Asymmetric Dielectric Nanoantennas

High-permittivity III-V semiconductor nanocavities have shown huge potential for enhanced nonlinear light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. In particular, Second Harmonic (SH) generation in AlGaAs nanoantennas can be extremely efficient; however, vertical emission is difficult to achieve, due to...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE photonics journal 2020-06, Vol.12 (3), p.1-7
Hauptverfasser: Rocco, Davide, Gigli, Carlo, Carletti, Luca, Marino, Giuseppe, Vincenti, Maria Antonietta, Leo, Giuseppe, De Angelis, Costantino
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Zusammenfassung:High-permittivity III-V semiconductor nanocavities have shown huge potential for enhanced nonlinear light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. In particular, Second Harmonic (SH) generation in AlGaAs nanoantennas can be extremely efficient; however, vertical emission is difficult to achieve, due to the zincblende χ (2) tensor and epitaxially growth on (100) substrates. Here, we demonstrate that we can shape the second harmonic radiation pattern from a single AlGaAs nanostructure by exploiting a geometrical symmetry breaking optimization approach. The optimized design allows to redirect the SH signal toward the normal direction and to increase the SH power collection efficiency by 2 orders of magnitude in a small numerical aperture of 0.1 with respect to the symmetrical counterpart structure.
ISSN:1943-0655
1943-0655
1943-0647
DOI:10.1109/JPHOT.2020.2988502