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Semi-nonlinear nanophotonic waveguides for highly efficient second-harmonic generation

Rui Luo·Yang He·Hanxiao Liang·Mingxiao Li·Qiang Lin
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Quadratic optical parametric processes form the foundation for a variety of applications related to classical and quantum frequency conversion, which have attracted significant interest recently in on-chip implementation. These processes rely on phase matching among the interacting guided modes, and refractive index engineering has been a primary approach for this purpose. Unfortunately, the modal phase matching approaches developed so far only produce parametric generation with fairly low efficiencies, due to the intrinsic modal mismatch of spatial symmetries. Here we propose a universal design and operation principle for highly efficient optical parametric generation on integrated photonic platforms. By introducing spatial symmetry breaking into the optical nonlinearity of the device, we are able to dramatically enhance the nonlinear parametric interaction to realize an extremely high efficiency. We employ this approach to design and fabricate a heterogeneous titanium oxide/lithium niobate nanophotonic waveguide that is able to offer second-harmonic generation with a theoretical conversion efficiency as high as 2900% W$^{-1}$cm$^{-2}$, which enables us to experimentally achieve a conversion efficiency of 36.0% W$^{-1}$ in a waveguide only 2.35 mm long, corresponding to a recorded normalized efficiency of 650% W$^{-1}$cm$^{-2}$ that is significantly beyond the reach of conventional modal phase matching approaches. Unlike nonlinearity domain engineering that is material selective, the proposed operation principle can be flexibly applied to any other on-chip quadratic nonlinear platform to support ultra-highly efficient optical parametric interactions, thus opening up a great avenue towards extreme nonlinear and quantum optics with great potentials for broad applications in energy efficient nonlinear and quantum photonic signal processing.

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Rui Luo, Yang He, Hanxiao Liang, Mingxiao Li, Qiang Lin. 2018-09-17. Semi-nonlinear nanophotonic waveguides for highly efficient second-harmonic generation. https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06476

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