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Large optical nonlinearity of indium tin oxide in its epsilon-near-zero region
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Nonlinear optics: A surprise in store?: At ultrafast data rates, the ability to use light to control things could speed information processing. However, photons tend not to interact with each other, and so a nonlinear optical material is needed and the response of such materials is typically weak. Alam et al. report a surprising finding: that indium tin oxide, a commercially available transparent conducting oxide widely used in microelectronics, exhibits a large nonlinear response. They used a wavelength regime where the permittivity of the material is close to zero and observed a large and fast nonlinear optical response. The finding offers the possibility that other, so far unexplored, materials may be out there for nonlinear optical applications. Science , this issue p. 795
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- Alam, M. Z., De Leon, I., & Boyd, R. W.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2016-05-13
- Volume
- 352
- Issue
- 6287
- Pages
- 795-797
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- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
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- en
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