Enhanced second-harmonic generation from magnetic resonance in AlGaAs nanoantennas

Costantino De Angelis, Andrea Locatelli, Luca Carletti, Davide Rocco, Oleksandr Stepanenko, Giuseppe Leo, Ivan Favero, Aristide Lemaitre, Giuseppe Marino, Nicolas Olivier, Anatoly V. Zayats

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Abstract

We designed cylindrical AlGaAs-on-aluminium-oxide all-dielectric nanoantennas with magnetic dipole resonance at near-infrared wavelengths. Our choice of material system offers a few crucial advantages with respect to the silicon-oninsulator platform for operation around 1.55μm wavelength: absence of two-photon absorption, high χ(2) nonlinearity, and the perspective of a monolithic integration with a laser. We analyzed volume second-harmonic generation associated to a magnetic dipole resonance in these nanoantennas, and we predict a conversion efficiency exceeding 10-3 with 1GW/cm2 of pump intensity.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
PublisherSPIE
Volume9755
ISBN (Print)9781628419900
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 Feb 2016
EventQuantum Sensing and Nano Electronics and Photonics XIII - San Francisco, United States
Duration: 14 Feb 201618 Feb 2016

Conference

ConferenceQuantum Sensing and Nano Electronics and Photonics XIII
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period14/02/201618/02/2016

Keywords

  • AlGaAs.
  • All-dielectric nanoantennas
  • Mie scattering
  • nonlinear nanophotonics
  • second harmonic generation

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