Publications associées à Nonlinear Correlation Spectroscopy (NLCS)

Nonlinear optical diode effect in a magnetic Weyl semimetal

Philip Johannes Walter Moll, Chunyu Guo, Hao Yang

Diode effects are of great interest for both fundamental physics and modern technologies. Electrical diode effects (nonreciprocal transport) have been observed in Weyl systems. Optical diode effects arising from the Weyl fermions have been theoretically co ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Second harmonic scattering of nanoparticles: A journey into the electrical double layer

Bingxin Chu

In aqueous solutions, a charged surface causes the redistribution of nearby ions. The ion layers formed are known as the electrical double layer (EDL), and are widespread in many systems involving electrochemistry, colloidal science, biomedicine, and energ ...

EPFL2024

Progress and prospects in nonlinear extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray optics and spectroscopy

Majed Chergui

Free-electron lasers and high-harmonic-generation table-top systems are new sources of extreme-ultraviolet to hard X-ray photons, providing ultrashort pulses that are intense, coherent and tunable. They are enabling a broad range of nonlinear optical and s ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Nonlinear Frequency Conversion in III-Nitride Doubly Resonant Photonic Crystal Cavities

Jun Wang

Nonlinear frequency conversion processes, such as second-harmonic generation (SHG) and spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), are essential in many applications, including the generation of entangled photons. It's desirable to enhance these process ...

EPFL2023

A chip-scale second-harmonic source via self-injection-locked all-optical poling

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Edgars Nitiss, Marco Clementi

Second-harmonic generation allows for coherently bridging distant regions of the optical spectrum, with applications ranging from laser technology to self-referencing of frequency combs. However, accessing the nonlinear response of a medium typically requi ...

2023

Hybrid lithium niobate-on-silicon nitride platform for mid-IR supercontinuum generation

Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev

Integrated optics has shown itself very convenient for exploiting nonlinear processes as it results in high confinement factor, freedom of dispersion engineering and compactness. However, the choice of materials is crucial for the development of nonlinear ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2023

Domain Imaging and Switching Dynamics in BaTiO3-Based Photonic Integrated Devices

Jacqueline Geler Kremer

Keeping up with our constantly connected lifestyle of instant messages and video streaming has its repercussions. Data centers have been gobbling up resources becoming a significant share of the energy used worldwide. To keep up with demand and curb the en ...

EPFL2023

Size dependence of second-harmonic scattering from nanoparticles: Disentangling surface and electrostatic contributions

Arianna Marchioro, Sylvie Roke, Bingxin Chu

Polarimetric angle-resolved second-harmonic scattering (AR-SHS) is an all-optical tool enabling the study of unlabeled interfaces of nano-sized particles in an aqueous solution. As the second harmonic signal is modulated by interference between nonlinear c ...

AIP Publishing2023

Optically reconfigurable quasi-phase-matching in silicon nitride microresonators

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Anton Stroganov, Edgars Nitiss

Quasi-phase-matching has long been a widely used approach in nonlinear photonics, enabling efficient parametric frequency conversions such as second-harmonic generation. However, in silicon photonics the task remains challenging, as materials best suited f ...

Nature Publishing Group2022

Electric-field poling of silicon nitride waveguides for the linear phase modulation

Camille Sophie Brès, Anton Stroganov, Edgars Nitiss, Boris Zabelich

Stoichiometric silicon nitride (Si3N4) constitutes a mature platform for integrated photonics. Its pertinent properties, including wide transparency window from the visible to the mid-IR, low propagation loss, and high third-order nonlinearity, are exploit ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2022

Gd3+-Functionalized Lithium Niobate Nanoparticles for Dual Multiphoton and Magnetic Resonance Bioimaging

Sandrine Gerber, Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Luigi Bonacina, Marinella Mazzanti, Katarzyna Pierzchala, Raphaël Jovita De Matos, Dario Diviani, Jérémy Vuilleumier, Adrian Stefan Gheata, Ileana Ozana Jelescu, Laura Camille Louise Nicolle, Fiorella Lucarini

Harmonic nanoparticles (HNPs) have emerged as appealing exogenous probes for optical bioimaging due to their distinctive features such as long-term photostability and spectral flexibility, allowing multiphoton excitation in the classical (NIR-I) and extend ...

2022

Second harmonic generation in glass-based metasurfaces using tailored surface lattice resonances

Olivier Martin, Jérémy Butet, Dang Tùng Nguyen, Fabien Sorin, Wei Yan, Kuang-Yu Yang, Chaoqun Dong, Andreas Leber

Dielectric metasurfaces have shown prominent applications in nonlinear optics due to strong field enhancement and low dissipation losses at the nanoscale. Chalcogenide glasses are one of the promising materials for the observation of nonlinear effects than ...

2021

Highly tunable second-harmonic generation in all-optically poled silicon nitride waveguides

Camille Sophie Brès, Anton Stroganov, Edgars Nitiss, Ozan Yakar

The availability of nonlinear parametric processes, such as frequency conversion in photonic integrated circuits is essential. In this contribution, we demonstrate a highly tunable second-harmonic generation in a fully complementary metal–oxide–semiconduct ...

2020

Modes interplay controls the second harmonic generation dynamics of plasmonic nanostructures

Olivier Martin, Gabriel David Bernasconi, Andrei Kiselev

A large amount of experimental and theoretical works deals with the second harmonic generation from different plasmonic geometries. Since they often consider relatively long optical pulses, many of these studies are focused on the investigation of a quasi- ...

SPIE2020

Modes interplay and dynamics in the second harmonic generation of plasmonic nanostructures

Olivier Martin, Gabriel David Bernasconi, Andrei Kiselev

The full wave surface integral equation computation of the second harmonic generation (SHG) dynamics for metal spheres and nanorods - presented as multimedia files - is performed to reveal the dynamics of the modes supported by the nanostructure. We demons ...

2019

Enhanced second harmonic generation of gold nanostars: optimizing multipolar radiation to improve nonlinear properties

Jérémy Raymond Jean Maurice Rouxel

We report a detailed investigation on the second harmonic generation (SHG) emission from single 150 nm diameter non-centrosymmetric gold nanoparticles. Polarization-resolved analysis together with scanning electron microscopy images shows that these nanost ...

2019

Second- and third-order nonlinear wavelength conversion in an all-optically poled Si3N4 waveguide

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Camille Sophie Brès, Davide Grassani

Silicon nitride (Si3N4) is commonly employed to integrate third-order nonlinear optical processes on a chip. Its amorphous state, however, inhibits significant second-order nonlinear response. Recently, second-harmonic generation enhancement has been obser ...

2019

Integrated Gallium Phosphide Photonics

Katharina Schmeing

The integration of new materials mediating light-matter interaction in nanoscale devices is a persistent goal in nanophotonics. One of these materials is Gallium phosphide, which offers an attractive combination of a high refractive index (n=3.05 at a wave ...

EPFL2019

Strong second-harmonic generation from Au-Al heterodimers

Olivier Martin, Gabriel David Bernasconi, Jérémy Butet

Second-harmonic generation (SHG) is investigated from three kinds of lithographically fabricated plasmonic systems: Al monomers, Au monomers and Au-Al heterodimers with nanogaps of 20 nm. Spectrally integrated SHG intensities and the linear optical respons ...

2019

Formation Rules and Dynamics of Photoinduced χ(2) Gratings in Silicon Nitride Waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Camille Sophie Brès, Davide Grassani, Edgars Nitiss, Tianyi Liu

Silicon nitride has emerged as a prominent platform for building photonics integrated circuits. While its nonlinear properties based on third-order effects have been successfully exploited, an efficient second harmonic generation in standard stoichiometric ...

2020