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We present a prism-coupled packaging strategy for whispering-gallery mode resonators (WGMRs). Utilizing an all-solid-state optical adhesive process with active temperature control and hermetic sealing, the package exhibits exceptional…
Understanding the mechanisms and spatial correlations of crystallographic symmetry breaking in ferroelectric materials is essential to tuning their functional properties. While optical second harmonic generation (SHG) has long been utilized…
We report the observation of optical second harmonic generation (SHG) in single-layer indium selenide (InSe). We measure a second harmonic signal of $>10^3$ $\textrm{cts/s}$ under nonresonant excitation using a home-built confocal…
The PhD thesis is devoted to the study of second harmonic generation of narrow beams in photonic crystals. The basic idea is that if both frequencies, the fundamental and second harmonics are in the region of self-collimation, then the…
By numerically integrating the three-dimensional Maxwell equations in the time domain with reference to a dispersive quadratically nonlinear material, we study second harmonic generation in planar photonic crystal microresonators. The…
Integrated waveguides exhibiting efficient second-order nonlinearities are crucial to obtain compact and low power optical signal processing devices. Silicon nitride (SiN) has shown second harmonic generation (SHG) capabilities in resonant…
Recent years have witnessed significant developments in the study of nonlinear properties of various optical materials at the nanoscale. However, in most cases experimental results on harmonic generation from nanostructured materials are…
We demonstrate efficient upconversion of sub-THz radiation into the optical domain in a high-Q whispering gallery mode resonator with quadratic optical nonlinearity. The 5x10^{-3} power conversion efficiency of continuous wave 100GHz signal…
Periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) is a widely used nonlinear optical device for second harmonic generation (SHG). Despite its wide adoption in commercial systems, its bandwidth for SHG is fundamentally limited by the quasi-phase…
We investigated the whispering gallery modes of cavities with a hexagonal cross-section. We found two different modes, namely perturbed and quasi-WGMs, of which the former exhibits the higher Q when the corner radius is large. We studied…
We present the characterization of 8-12 GHz whispering gallery mode resonators machined in high-quality sapphire crystals elaborated with different growth techniques. These microwave resonators are intended to constitute the reference…
This study presents an investigation of second harmonic generation (SHG) resulting from interaction of radially polarized laser beam propagating in homogeneous, unmagnetized plasma. Lorentz force and continuity equations have been used to…
We demonstrate phase-matched second-harmonic generation (SHG) from three-dimensional metamaterials consisting of stacked metasurfaces. To achieve phase matching, we utilize a novel mechanism based on phase engineering of the metasurfaces at…
The 4-bar crystal symmetry in materials such as GaAs can enable quasi-phasematching for efficient frequency conversion without poling, twinning or other engineered domain inversions. 4-bar symmetry means that a 90 degree rotation is…
Complex scattering potentials can admit scattering states that behave exactly like a zero-width resonance. Their energy is what mathematicians call a spectral singularity. This phenomenon admits optical realizations in the form of lasing at…
Here we employ the quasi-bound state in the continuum (quasi-BIC) resonance in all-dielectric metasurfaces for efficient nonlinear processes in consideration of the backward frequency conversion. We theoretically study the second-harmonic…
Plasmonic enhancement of nonlinear optical processes confront severe limitations arising from the strong dispersion of metal susceptibilities and small interaction volumes that hamper desirable phase-matching-like conditions. Maximizing…
We investigate theoretically and experimentally the optical second harmonic generation (SHG) with a twisted Gaussian Schell model (TGSM) beam as the fundamental field. We use Type-II phase matching and analyze the cross spectral density…
High quality factor optical microcavities have been employed in a variety of material systems to enhance nonlinear optical interactions. While single-crystalline aluminum nitride microresonators have recently emerged as a low loss platform…
Nonlinear frequency conversion in optics can originate the coherent light at the wavelength where it is hard or unlikely to achieve by directly lasing and is a fundamental topic in science and engineering covering both classical and quantum…