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Although massless Dirac fermions in graphene constitute a centrosymmetric medium for in-plane excitations, their second-order nonlinear optical response is nonzero if the effects of spatial dispersion are taken into account. Here we present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Yongrui Wang , Mikhail Tokman , Alexey Belyanin

Optical materials with centrosymmetry, such as silicon and germanium, are unfortunately absent of second-order nonlinear optical responses, hindering their developments in efficient nonlinear optical devices. Here, a design with an array of…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-17 C. Fang , Q. Yang , Q. Yuan , L. Gu , X. Gan , Y. Shao , Y. Liu , G. Han , Y. Hao

We have developed a numerical method for calculating the second harmonic generation (SHG) generated by an anisotropic material whose optical properties present an arbitrary modulation in one dimension. The method is based on the Berreman…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-31 J. Ortega , C. L. Folcia , J. Etxebarria

Comparative analysis of second harmonic generation in ordinary and backward-wave settings is presented. Extraordinary properties of frequency doubling nonlinear optical reflectivity and pulse shaping through phase matching of ordinary and…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-02 Alexander K. Popov , Sergey A. Myslivets

Second order optical nonlinear processes involve the coherent mixing of two electromagnetic waves to generate a new optical frequency, which plays a central role in a variety of applications, such as ultrafast laser systems, rectifiers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Sanfeng Wu , Li Mao , Aaron M. Jones , Wang Yao , Chuanwei Zhang , Xiaodong Xu

The nonlinear process of second harmonic generation (SHG) in monolayer (1L) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD), like $WS_2$, strongly depends on the polarization state of the excitation light. Combining plasmonic nanostructures with…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-08 Florian Spreyer , Claudia Ruppert , Philip Georgi , Thomas Zentgraf

Nonlinear optical processes in whispering gallery mode (WGM) microresonators have attracted much attention. Owing to the strong confinement of light in a small volume, a WGM microresonator can dramatically boost the strength of light field,…

Optics · Physics 2015-12-29 Jintian Lin , Yingxin Xu , Jielei Ni , Min Wang , Zhiwei Fang , Lingling Qiao , Wei Fang , Ya Cheng

Nonlinear optics, and particularly second harmonic generation (SHG), is increasingly used in many modern disciplines from material characterization in physical sciences to bio-imaging in medicine and optical signal processing in information…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-17 G. van der Laan , S. W. Lovesey

Second and third harmonic generation in the opaque region of a GaAs wafer is experimentally observed both in transmission and reflection. These harmonic components can propagate through an opaque material as long as the pump is tuned to a…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-13 L. Rodriguez , J. Trull , M. Scalora , R. Vilaseca , C. Cojocaru

Owing to the discrete frequency spectrum of whispering gallery resonators (WGRs), the resonance and phase-matching conditions for the interacting waves in the case of second-harmonic generation (SHG) cannot generally be fulfilled…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-23 Jan Szabados , Nicolás Amiune , Boris Sturman , Ingo Breunig

In nonlinear nanophotonics, cascaded second-harmonic generation (SHG) in pure plasmonic waveguides for sequential signal transformation and complex on-chip functionality remains a long-standing challenge. Precise phase matching becomes…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-22 Komal Gupta , Anand Hegde , Xiaofei Wu , Jer-Shing Huang , Chen-Bin Huang

We report on the optical second harmonic generation (SHG) on the 1S exciton-polariton resonance in bulk ZnSe that is subject to an external magnetic field applied perpendicular to the light wave vector $\mathbf k$ (Voigt geometry). For the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 J. Mund , D. R. Yakovlev , A. Farenbruch , N. V. Siverin , M. A. Semina , M. M. Glazov , E. L. Ivchenko , M. Bayer

Second harmonic generation is considered in lossy negative-index metamaterials. It is shown that energy transfer from fundamental to harmonic takes place in the entire sample for the range of phase mismatch values. Note that in conventional…

Using the microscopic nonlinear quantum theory of interaction of strong coherent electromagnetic radiation with a gapped bilayer graphene is developed for high harmonic generation at low-energy photon excitation-induced Lifshitz…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 A. G. Ghazaryan , H. H. Matevosyan , Kh. V. Sedrakian

Graphene is a nonlinear material which can be used as a saturable absorber, frequency mixer and frequency multiplier. We investigate the third harmonic generation from graphene lying on different substrates, consisting of a dielectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-09 N. A. Savostianova , S. A. Mikhailov

We investigate the process of the second harmonic generation by plasmonic nano-antennas that exhibit Fano-like resonances. A rigorous fully vectorial Maxwell-hydrodynamics approach is employed to directly calculate the second order…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-27 Maxim Sukharev , Elena Drobnyh , Ruth Pachter

Type I and type II second harmonic generation (SHG) of a beam transformed by the conical refraction phenomenon are presented. We show that, for type I, the second harmonic intensity pattern is a light ring with a point of null intensity…

We study cascaded harmonic generation of hybrid surface plasmons in integrated planar waveguides composed of a graphene layer and a doped-semiconductor slab. We derive a comprehensive model of cascaded third harmonic generation through…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-14 Daria A. Smirnova , Alexander S. Solntsev

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…

Because of the importance of second harmonic generation in some nonlinear media, in this paper, we investigated induced second harmonic generation in diamond where there is no intrinsic second order susceptibility, X(2). The electric field…

Optics · Physics 2015-11-19 Mahboubeh Ghalandari