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Stoichiometric silicon nitride is a highly regarded platform for its favorable attributes, such as low propagation loss and compatibility with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology, making it a prominent choice for various linear and nonlinear ...

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Nonlinear optical diode effect in a magnetic Weyl semimetal

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Diode effects are of great interest for both fundamental physics and modern technologies. Electrical diode effects (nonreciprocal transport) have been observed in Weyl systems. Optical diode effects arising from the Weyl fermions have been theoretically co ...

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In the past decade, optical diffraction tomography has gained a lot of attention for its ability to create label-free three-dimensional (3D) images of the refractive index distribution of biological samples using scattered fields measured through holograph ...

EPFL2023

Electric-field poling of silicon nitride waveguides for the linear phase modulation

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Linear Electro-optic Effect in Silicon Nitride Waveguides Enabled by Electric-Field Poling

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Stoichiometric silicon nitride (Si3N4) is one of the most mature integrated photonic platforms for linear and nonlinear optical applications on-chip. However, because it is a centrosymmetric material, second-order nonlinear processes are inherently not ava ...

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Difference frequency generation in optically poled silicon nitride waveguides

Camille Sophie Brès, Edgars Nitiss, Ozan Yakar, Boris Zabelich, Ezgi Sahin

All-optical poling leads to an effective second-order nonlinearity (chi((2))) in centrosymmetric materials without the need for sophisticated fabrication techniques or material processing, through the periodic self-organization of the charges. The absence ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2021

Doubly resonant second-harmonic generation of a vortex beam from a bound state in the continuum

Jean-François Carlin, Romuald Houdré, Nicolas Grandjean, Matteo Galli, Momchil Minkov, Jun Wang, Marco Clementi

Second-harmonic generation in nonlinear materials can be greatly enhanced by realizing doubly resonant cavities with high quality factors. However, fulfilling such doubly resonant condition in photonic crystal (PhC) slab cavities is a long-standing challen ...

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Nonlinear states and dynamics in a synthetic frequency dimension

Tobias Kippenberg, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin

Recent advances in the study of synthetic dimensions revealed a possibility to employ the frequency space as an additional degree of freedom which allows for investigating and exploiting higher-dimensional phenomena in a priori low-dimensional systems. How ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Peculiarities of second harmonic generation with chirped femtosecond pulses at high conversion efficiency

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Frequency doubling of an infrared laser radiation in non-linear optical crystals is a widely used technique to obtain light in the visible range. The second harmonic generation process is influenced by several well-known parameters. In this article we stud ...

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Integrated Gallium Phosphide Photonics

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Development of coherent mid-infrared source using chalcogenide photonic crystal fibers

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Many molecule bonds have vibration frequencies in the mid-infrared band. Thus, this band is of great interest to molecular spectroscopy, material processing and medical applications. However, many optical materials typically used for laser sources experien ...

EPFL2019

Plasmonic Metasurfaces to Tailor Second Harmonic Generation

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Second harmonic (SH) generation (SHG) in plasmonic nanostructures originates from the surface of centrosymmetric metals where inversion symmetry is broken. The interest in that topic stems from the strong near-field enhancement on the surface of plasmonic ...

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Parametrically Tunable Soliton-Induced Resonant Radiation by Three-Wave Mixing

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We show that a temporal soliton can induce resonant radiation by three-wave mixing nonlinearities. This constitutes a new class of resonant radiation whose spectral positions are parametrically tunable. The experimental verification is done in a periodical ...

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What interactions can distort the orientational distribution of interfacial water molecules as probed by second harmonic and sum frequency generation?

Sylvie Roke

Aqueous interfaces are omnipresent in nature. Nonlinear optical methods such as second harmonic and sum frequency generation (SHG/SFG) are valuable techniques to access molecular level information from these interfaces. In the interpretation of SHG and SFG ...

American Institute of Physics2016

Air nonlinear dynamics initiated by ultra-intense lambda-cubic terahertz pulses

Mostafa Shalaby, Christoph Peter Hauri

We report on the measurement of the instantaneous Kerr nonlinearity and the retarded alignment of air molecules CO2, N-2, and O-2 triggered by an intense, lambda-cubic terahertz pulse, a diffraction-and transform-limited single-cycle pulse. The strong-fiel ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2015

Towards enabling femtosecond helicity-dependent spectroscopy with high-harmonic sources

Fernando Ardana Lamas, Christoph Peter Hauri

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Nature Publishing Group2015

Kerr coefficients of plasma resonances in Josephson junction chains

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Amer Physical Soc2015

Nonlinear optical and magnetic properties of BiFeO3 harmonic nanoparticles

Daniel Rytz, Jean-Pierre Wolf, Sandrine Gerber, Luigi Bonacina, Solène Marcelle Françoise Marie Passemard, Davide Städler

Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) from BiFeO3 nanocrystals is investigated for the first time to determine their potential as biomarkers for multiphoton imaging. Nanocrystals are produced by an auto-combustion method with 2-amino-2-hydroxymethyl-propane-1,3 ...

American Institute of Physics2014

Spatiotemporal Focusing Dynamics of Intense Supercontinuum THz Pulses

Christoph Peter Hauri

High-field terahertz (THz) single-cycle pulses with 1.5 MV/cm are generated by optical rectification in the stilbazolium salt crystal 4-N, N-dimethylamino-4'-N'-methyl-stilbazolium 2,4,6-trimethylbenzenesulfonate. We show experimentally that the generated ...

Amer Physical Soc2013

Third-Order Susceptibility of Silicon Crystals Measured with Millimeter-Wave Gyrotron

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We investigate experimental dependence of the third harmonic generation efficiency in the n-type Si crystals on the geometrical dimensions of the sample, polarization and power of the fundamental wave. The efficiency increases monotonically with the rise o ...

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