All semiconductor enhanced high-harmonic generation from a single nanostructured cone

authored by: Dominik Franz, Shatha Kaassamani, David Gauthier, Rana Nicolas, Maria Kholodtsova, Ludovic Douillard, Jean Thomas Gomes, Laure Lavoute, Dmitry Gaponov, Nicolas Ducros, Sebastien Février, Jens Biegert, Liping Shi, Milutin Kovacev, Willem Boutu, Hamed Merdji
Abstract: The enhancement and control of non-linear phenomena at a nanometer scale has a wide range of applications in science and in industry. Among these phenomena, high-harmonic generation in solids is a recent focus of research to realize next generation petahertz optoelectronic devices or compact all solid state EUV sources. Here, we report on the realization of the first nanoscale high harmonic source. The strong field regime is reached by confining the electric field from a few nanojoules femtosecond laser in a single 3D semiconductor waveguide. We reveal a strong competition between enhancement of coherent harmonics and incoherent fluorescence favored by excitonic processes. However, far from the band edge, clear enhancement of the harmonic emission is reported with a robust sustainability offering a compact nanosource for applications. We illustrate the potential of our harmonic nano-device by performing a coherent diffractive imaging experiment. Ultra-compact UV/X-ray nanoprobes are foreseen to have other applications such as petahertz electronics, nano-tomography or nano-medicine.
Organisation(s): Institute of Quantum Optics
QuantumFrontiers
External Organisation(s): Université Paris-Saclay
Novae
Universite de Limoges
ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences
Type: Article
Journal: Scientific Reports
Volume: 9
ISSN: 2045-2322
Publication date: 01.12.2020
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: General
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1901.02279 (Access: Open)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41642-y (Access: Open)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-63113-5 (Access: Open)

BibTeX

@article{30b9cd3b4db442be978ae6720108a5ed,
title = "All semiconductor enhanced high-harmonic generation from a single nanostructured cone",
abstract = "The enhancement and control of non-linear phenomena at a nanometer scale has a wide range of applications in science and in industry. Among these phenomena, high-harmonic generation in solids is a recent focus of research to realize next generation petahertz optoelectronic devices or compact all solid state EUV sources. Here, we report on the realization of the first nanoscale high harmonic source. The strong field regime is reached by confining the electric field from a few nanojoules femtosecond laser in a single 3D semiconductor waveguide. We reveal a strong competition between enhancement of coherent harmonics and incoherent fluorescence favored by excitonic processes. However, far from the band edge, clear enhancement of the harmonic emission is reported with a robust sustainability offering a compact nanosource for applications. We illustrate the potential of our harmonic nano-device by performing a coherent diffractive imaging experiment. Ultra-compact UV/X-ray nanoprobes are foreseen to have other applications such as petahertz electronics, nano-tomography or nano-medicine.",
keywords = "physics.optics",
author = "Dominik Franz and Shatha Kaassamani and David Gauthier and Rana Nicolas and Maria Kholodtsova and Ludovic Douillard and Gomes, {Jean Thomas} and Laure Lavoute and Dmitry Gaponov and Nicolas Ducros and Sebastien F{\'e}vrier and Jens Biegert and Liping Shi and Milutin Kovacev and Willem Boutu and Hamed Merdji",
year = "2020",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.48550/arXiv.1901.02279",
language = "English",
volume = "9",
journal = "Scientific Reports",
issn = "2045-2322",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
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