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An All-Dielectric Polaritonic Metasurface with a Giant Nonlinear Optical Response

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Enhancing the efficiency of second-harmonic generation using all-dielectric metasurfaces to date has mostly focused on electromagnetic engineering of optical modes in the meta-atom. Further advances in nonlinear conversion efficiencies can be gained by engineering the material nonlinearities at the nanoscale, however this cannot be achieved using conventional materials. Semiconductor heterostructures that support resonant nonlinearities using quantum engineered intersubband transitions can provide this new degree of freedom. By simultaneously optimizing the heterostructures and meta-atoms, we experimentally realize an all-dielectric polaritonic metasurface with a maximum second-harmonic generation power conversion factor of 0.5 mW/W 2 and power conversion efficiencies of 0.015% at nominal pump intensities of 11 kW/cm 2 . These conversion efficiencies are higher than the record values reported to date in all-dielectric nonlinear metasurfaces but with 3 orders of magnitude lower pump power. Our results therefore open a new direction for designing efficient nonlinear all-dielectric metasurfaces for new classical and quantum light sources.

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  • The coupled QW design lacks inversion symmetry along the growth direction z, allowing optical transitions at both the fundamental pump wavelength (7.9 μm) and SH wavelength (3.95 μm) from the ground state, creating a doubly-resonant χ(2).

    “It lacks inversion symmetry along the growth direction z , which allows us to have optical transitions at both the fundamental pump wavelength (7.9 µm) and SH wavelength (3.95 µm) from the ground state and thereby creates a doublyresonant χ (2) [22].”

    From Inverse Design of an All-Dielectric Nonlinear Polaritonic Metasurface. (2025) · cites this paper as [22]

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  • The cylindrical resonators support a magnetic dipole-type Mie mode at the pump frequency.

    “the cylindrical resonators support a magnetic dipole-type Mie mode at the pump frequency [22]”

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  1. Boyd R. W., 2008, Nonlinear Optics
  2. Brener I., 2019, Dielectric Metamaterials: Fundamentals, Designs and Applications

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Authors
Sarma, R., Xu, J., de Ceglia, D., Carletti, L., Campione, S., Klem, J., Sinclair, M. B., Belkin, M. A., & Brener, I.
Affiliations
  • Sandia National Laboratories (US)
  • The University of Texas at Austin (US)
  • University of Padua (IT)
  • Technical University of Munich (DE)
Corresponding author
  • Sarma, Raktim
  • Brener, Igal
Venue
Nano Letters
Published
2022-01-19
Volume
22
Issue
3
Pages
896-903
ISSN
  • 1530-6984 (ISSN-L)
  • 1530-6992
OpenAlex
W4206646833
Cited by
51
References
43
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 7
FWCI
2.54
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nano Letters (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Brescia) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • Basic Energy Sciences
  • Ministero dell?Istruzione, dell?Universit? e della Ricerca (Law 232/2016)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics
Keywords
dielectric metasurfaces, second harmonic generation, nonlinear optical properties, semiconductor heterostructures, intersubband transitions, meta-atoms, power conversion efficiency, nonlinear photonics

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