Phase-matched frequency doubling at photonic band edges: efficiency scaling as the fifth power of the length

Y Dumeige; I Sagnes; P Monnier; P Vidakovic; I Abram; C Mériadec; A Levenson

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.043901

Phase-matched frequency doubling at photonic band edges: efficiency scaling as the fifth power of the length

Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Jul 22;89(4):043901. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.043901. Epub 2002 Jul 3.

Authors

Y Dumeige¹, I Sagnes, P Monnier, P Vidakovic, I Abram, C Mériadec, A Levenson

Affiliation

¹ Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures (CNRS UPR 20), Route de Nozay, 91460 Marcoussis, France.

PMID: 12144481
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.043901

Abstract

By exploiting the unique properties of periodic stratified media we demonstrate simultaneously phase matching and enhancement of the optical field under second order nonlinear interaction. This leads to a second harmonic efficiency growth faster than the fifth power of the structure length, far better than the usual quadratic behavior associated with second order nonlinear effects.