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Exciton-polaritons are quasiparticles consisting of a linear superposition of photonic and excitonic states, offering potential for nonlinear optical devices. The excitonic component of the polariton provides a finite Coulomb scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-20 Lucas C. Flatten , David M. Coles , Zhengyu He , David. G. Lidzey , Robert A. Taylor , Jamie H. Warner , Jason M. Smith

Active control over strong optical nonlinearity in solid-state systems is central to unlocking exotic many-body phenomena and scalable photonic devices. While exciton-polaritons in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer a promising…

Tailoring and enhancing the interaction between light and matter is of great importance for both fundamental researches and future photonic and optoelectronic applications. Due to their high exciton oscillator strength and large exciton…

Monolayer semiconductors are atomically thin quantum wells with strong confinement of electrons in two-dimensional (2D) plane. Here, we experimentally study the out-of-plane polarizability of excitons in hBN-encapsulated monolayer WSe$_{2}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 Ivan A. Verzhbitskiy , Daniele Vella , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Goki Eda

We develop a multipolar theory of second-harmonic generation (SHG) by dielectric nanoparticles made of noncentrosymmetric materials with bulk quadratic nonlinearity. We specifically analyze two regimes of optical excitation: illumination by…

Second-harmonic generation (SHG) is a fundamental nonlinear optical process widely used in photonics; however, it is strictly forbidden in the bulk of centrosymmetric materials due to their inversion symmetry. Nevertheless, applying an…

Plasmonic dimer antennas create strong field enhancement by squeezing light into a nanoscale gap. These optical hotspots are highly attractive for boosting nonlinear processes, such as harmonic generation, photoelectron emission, and…

Electrical control of individual spins and photons in solids is key for quantum technologies, but scaling down to small, static systems remains challenging. Here, we demonstrate nanoscale electrical tuning of neutral and charged excitons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Jawaher Almutlaq , Jiangtao Wang , Linsen Li , Chao Li , Tong Dang , Vladimir Bulović , Jing Kong , Dirk Englund

Controlling nonequilibrium responses in optically driven quantum materials is essential for advancing applications in energy conversion, ultrafast electronics, and quantum computation. Nonlinear optical spectroscopy serves as a powerful…

Excitons are key to the optoelectronic applications of van der Waals semiconductors with the potential for versatile on-demand tuning of properties. Yet, their electrical manipulation is complicated by their inherent charge neutrality and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Sarthak Das , Ding Huang , Ivan Verzhbitskiy , Zi-En Ooi , Chit Siong Lau , Rainer Lee , Calvin Pei Yu Wong , Kuan Eng Johnson Goh

We report comparative experimental and theoretical studies of second and third harmonic generation from a 20nm-thick indium tin oxide layer in proximity of the epsilon-near-zero condition. Using a tunable OPA laser we record both spectral…

We study the nonlinear process of second harmonic generation in photonic time-crystals, materials with refractive index that varies abruptly and periodically in time, and obtain the phase matching condition for this process. We find…

In this letter we show by means of first principle numerical simulations that electron-hole interaction significantly contributes to the second-harmonic generation spectrum of h-BN or MoS$_2$ monolayers. Specifically, it doubles the signal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-22 M. Grüning , C. Attaccalite

High-harmonic generation (HHG) in two-dimensional materials offers a compelling route toward compact extreme ultraviolet sources and probing electron dynamics on the attosecond scale. However, achieving precise control over the emission and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Zhenjiang Zhao , Zhihua Zheng , Zhiyi Xu , Xing Ran , Xiaolong Yao , Fangping Ouyang

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, known for exhibiting strong excitonic resonances, constitute a very interesting and versatile platform for investigation of light-matter interactions. In this work we report on a strong coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-20 M. Król , K. Lekenta , R. Mirek , K. Łempicka , D. Stephan , K. Nogajewski , M. R. Molas , A. Babiński , M. Potemski , J. Szczytko , B. Piętka

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are promising candidates for optoelectronic application and quantum information processes due to their inherent out-of-plane 2D confinement. In addition, they offer the possibility of achieving…

High harmonic generation (HHG) is a powerful probe of electron dynamics on attosecond to femtosecond timescales and has been successfully used to detect electronic and structural changes in solid-state quantum materials, including…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-21 Daniel A. Rehn , Towfiq Ahmed , Jinkyoung Yoo , Rohit Prasankumar , Jian-Xin Zhu

We investigate type I second harmonic generation in III-V semiconductor wire waveguides aligned with a crystallographic axis. In this direction, because of the single nonzero tensor element of III-V semiconductors, only frequency conversion…

Electric field-controlled, two-dimensional (2D) exciton dynamics in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers is a current research focus in condensed matter physics. We have experimentally investigated the spectral and temporal properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Michael Engel , Mathias Steiner

Nonlinear optical phenomena are at the heart of various technological domains such as high-speed data transfer, optical logic applications, and emerging fields such as non-reciprocal optics and photonic time crystal design. However,…