High-efficiency second-harmonic generation in coupled nano Fabry-Perot thin resonators

Opt Lett. 2022 Sep 1;47(17):4415-4418. doi: 10.1364/OL.465602.

Abstract

In this paper we experimentally demonstrate second-harmonic generation (SHG) enhancement in thin 1D periodic plasmonic nanostructures on GaAs in the infrared spectral range. Due to the properly designed coupling of horizontal Fabry-Perot nanoresonators that occurs inside these structures, the obtained conversion efficiencies go up to the 10-7 W-1 range. Moreover, we demonstrate that the engineering of the plasmonic nanoantenna dimensions on the same GaAs layer can lead to SHG enhancement for pump wavelengths ranging from 2.8 µm to 3.3 µm.