Plasmon-Amplified Third Harmonic Generation in Metal/Dielectric Resonators

authored by: Rana Nicolas, Liping Shi, Bruno Chanteau, Dominik Franz, Maria Kholodstova, Quentin Ripault, José R.C. Andrade, Bianca Iwan, Willem Boutu, Milutin Kovacev, Hamed Merdji
Abstract: Enhancing ultrafast nonlinear processes at a nanometer scale has the potential of creating novel nano-sources of energetic photons or particles useful for many applications, especially for embedded diagnostics. In this work, we investigate the plasmonic amplification of the third harmonic generation (THG) from a metal-dielectric-metal (MDM) nano-resonator in the near-terawatt intensity regime. In our geometry, the Fabry-Pérot plasmonic resonator reaches a high local enhancement of the laser electric field over a large volume of a SiO₂ dielectric film. The THG signal is amplified by more than one order of magnitude, with a higher efficiency compared to previous plasmonic geometries. The polarization dependence with respect to the fundamental laser allows an ON/OFF switch of the THG enhancement in the nanostructures which is a strong signature of the plasmonic origin of the THG amplification. Furthermore, the dispersion scan shows that the third harmonic spectrum is strongly redshifted with respect to the peak of its linear extinction spectrum. Using the nonlinear anharmonic model, we confirm that the third harmonic behavior dominantly arises from the silica layer.
Organisation(s): Institute of Quantum Optics
PhoenixD: Photonics, Optics, and Engineering - Innovation Across Disciplines
QuantumFrontiers
External Organisation(s): Université Paris-Saclay
Lebanese American University
Type: Article
Journal: Plasmonics
Volume: 16
Pages: 1883-1889
No. of pages: 7
ISSN: 1557-1955
Publication date: 12.2021
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Biotechnology, Biophysics, Biochemistry
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-021-01444-3 (Access: Closed)

BibTeX

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title = "Plasmon-Amplified Third Harmonic Generation in Metal/Dielectric Resonators",
abstract = "Enhancing ultrafast nonlinear processes at a nanometer scale has the potential of creating novel nano-sources of energetic photons or particles useful for many applications, especially for embedded diagnostics. In this work, we investigate the plasmonic amplification of the third harmonic generation (THG) from a metal-dielectric-metal (MDM) nano-resonator in the near-terawatt intensity regime. In our geometry, the Fabry-P{\'e}rot plasmonic resonator reaches a high local enhancement of the laser electric field over a large volume of a SiO2 dielectric film. The THG signal is amplified by more than one order of magnitude, with a higher efficiency compared to previous plasmonic geometries. The polarization dependence with respect to the fundamental laser allows an ON/OFF switch of the THG enhancement in the nanostructures which is a strong signature of the plasmonic origin of the THG amplification. Furthermore, the dispersion scan shows that the third harmonic spectrum is strongly redshifted with respect to the peak of its linear extinction spectrum. Using the nonlinear anharmonic model, we confirm that the third harmonic behavior dominantly arises from the silica layer.",
keywords = "Metal-dielectric-metal metasurface, Nonlinear anharmonic model, Plasmonic resonance, Third harmonic generation",
author = "Rana Nicolas and Liping Shi and Bruno Chanteau and Dominik Franz and Maria Kholodstova and Quentin Ripault and Andrade, {Jos{\'e} R.C.} and Bianca Iwan and Willem Boutu and Milutin Kovacev and Hamed Merdji",
note = "Funding Information: We received financial support from the European Union through the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Open H2020: PETACom (grant 829153), OPTOLOGIC (grant 899794). Support from the DGA RAPID grant “SWIM,” from the Centre National de Comp{\'e}tences en Nanosciences (C{\textquoteright}NANO) research program through the NanoscopiX grant; the LABoratoire d{\textquoteright}EXcelence Physique Atoms Lumi{\`e}re Mati{\`e}re—LABEX PALM (ANR-10-LABX-0039-PALM), through the grants “Plasmon-X” and “STAMPS” and, finally, the Action de Soutien {\`a} la Technologie et {\`a} la Recherche en Essonne (ASTRE) program through the “NanoLight” grant are also acknowledged. Support from the French National Research Agency through the PACHA grant (ANR-17-CE30-0008–01). Financial support by the German Research Foundation, grant KO 3798/4–1 and from Germany{\textquoteright}s Excellence Strategy EXC-2123 and Germany{\textquoteright}s Excellence Strategy within the Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD (EXC 2122, Project ID 390833453), Lower Saxony through “Quanten und Nanometrologie” (QUANOMET, Project Nanophotonik). ",
year = "2021",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1007/s11468-021-01444-3",
language = "English",
volume = "16",
pages = "1883--1889",
journal = "Plasmonics",
issn = "1557-1955",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "6",
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