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Enhanced second-harmonic generation from metal-integrated semiconductor nanowires via highly confined whispering gallery modes

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  • Ming-Liang Ren

    (University of Pennsylvania)

  • Wenjing Liu

    (University of Pennsylvania)

  • Carlos O. Aspetti

    (University of Pennsylvania)

  • Liaoxin Sun

    (University of Pennsylvania)

  • Ritesh Agarwal

    (University of Pennsylvania)

Abstract

Coherent and tunable nanoscale light sources utilizing optical nonlinearities are required for applications ranging from imaging and bio-sensing to on-chip all-optical signal processing. However, owing to their small sizes, the efficiency of nanostructures even with high nonlinear coefficients is poor, therefore requiring very high excitation energies. Although surface-plasmon resonances of metal nanostructures can enhance surface nonlinear processes such as second-harmonic generation, they still suffer from low conversion efficiencies owing to their intrinsically low nonlinear coefficients. Here we show highly enhanced and directional second-harmonic generation from individual CdS nanowires integrated with silver nanocavities (>1,000 times higher external efficiency compared with bare CdS), in which the lowest-order whispering gallery mode is engineered to concentrate light in the nonlinear material while minimizing Ohmic losses. The directional nonlinear signal is redirected into another waveguide, which is then utilized to configure an optical router that can potentially serve as a tunable coherent light source to enable on-chip signal processing for integrated nanophotonic systems.

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  • Ming-Liang Ren & Wenjing Liu & Carlos O. Aspetti & Liaoxin Sun & Ritesh Agarwal, 2014. "Enhanced second-harmonic generation from metal-integrated semiconductor nanowires via highly confined whispering gallery modes," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 5(1), pages 1-8, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:5:y:2014:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms6432
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6432
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