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Giant enhancement of second-harmonic generation from a nanocavity metasurface

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Nonlinear plasmonic metasurfaces are compatible with complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology and highly promising for on-chip optical switching and modulations and nanoscale frequency conversions. However, the low nonlinear-optical response of metasurface devices limits their practical applications. To circumvent this constraint, we propose the design of a nanocavity plasmonic metasurface, in which the strong light localization in the nanocavity can be used to boost the efficiency of second-harmonic generation. Compared with the single-layer counterpart, experimental results show that the intensity of the second-harmonic waves in the nanocavity metasurface is enhanced by ∼790 times. The proposed nanocavity plasmonic metasurfaces in this work may open new routes for developing highly efficient nonlinear metacrystals for on-chip nonlinear sources, nonlinear image encryption, information processing, and so on.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China

    Xuecai Zhang, Junhong Deng, Mingke Jin, Yang Li, Ningbin Mao, Yutao Tang, Xuan Liu, Kingfai Li & Guixin Li

  2. Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China

    Junhong Deng & Guixin Li

  3. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China

    Wenfeng Cai & Yanjun Liu

  4. Materials Characterization and Preparation Center, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 91950114, and 11774145), Guangdong Provincial Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project (Grant No. 2017ZT07C071), Natural Science Foundation of Shenzhen Innovation Commission (Grant No. JCYJ20200109140808088). The authors thank Dr. Y. S. Deng for his help with helium ion microscope imaging.

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Zhang, X., Deng, J., Jin, M. et al. Giant enhancement of second-harmonic generation from a nanocavity metasurface. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 64, 294215 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-021-1743-1

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