Abstract

Lithium niobate (LN), as a nonlinear material with a large nonlinear susceptibility, has been widely employed in second harmonic generation (SHG) up to ultraviolet (UV) frequency range due to its broad low-absorption window. In nanophotonics, it is possible to harness the Mie resonances associated with the single dielectric particles to boost the nonlinear light–matter interactions. Here, we fabricate single Mie-resonant LN nanospheres on a SiO2 substrate via the femtosecond (fs) laser ablation technique. By exploiting the magnetic dipole (MD) Mie resonance, UV SHG from the LN nanosphere is significantly enhanced with a measured conversion efficiency of 4.45 × 10−8 under the excitation of an fs laser at 750 nm. The single LN nanospheres achieved in this work could serve as Mie resonators for building nonlinear nanophotonic devices such as frequency converters and quantum light sources, etc.

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Title
Ultraviolet second harmonic generation from Mie-resonant lithium niobate nanospheres
Author
Wang, Jiayi 1 ; Liu, Zhuojun 1 ; Jin, Xiang 2 ; Chen, Bo 1 ; Wei, Yuming 1 ; Liu, Wenjing 3 ; Xu, Yi 4 ; Sheng Lan 5 ; Liu, Jin 1 

 State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China 
 Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Technology and Systems, Ministry of Education, School of Optoelectronic Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China 
 State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China 
 Department of Electronic Engineering, College of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China 
 Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, School of Information and Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China 
Pages
4273-4278
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
ISSN
21928606
e-ISSN
21928614
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2599262866
Copyright
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