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Nick N. Lepeshkin, Aaron Schweinsberg,Ryan S. Bennink, Robert W. Boyd
The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Robert L. Nelson
Air Force Research Laboratory, (AFRL/MLPO) Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433-7707 and
Enhanced Nonlinear Optical Response of 1-D Metal-Dielectric Photonic Band-Gap Structures
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Presented at the Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, October 2, 2002
How to Access Optical Nonlinearity of Metals?
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• colloidal solutions • metal doped glasses• granular metal films
Discontinuous composite materials:
Layered periodic MD structures:
High transparency within specified spectral range (PBG effect) Enhanced NLO response
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R.S. Bennink, Y.K. Yoon, R.W. Boyd, and J. E. Sipe Opt. Lett. 24, 1416, 1999.
• Metals have very large optical nonlinearities but low transmission.
• Solution: construct metal-dielectric PBG structure. (linear properties studied earlier by Bloemer and Scalora)
pure metal80 nm of copperT= 0.3%
PBG structure80 nm of Cu (total)T= 10%
• Low transmission is because metals are highly reflecting (not because they are absorbing!).
Accessing the Optical Nonlinearity of Metals with Metal-Dielectric PBG Structures
Accessing the Optical Nonlinearity of Metals with Metal-Dielectric PBG Structures
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• Metal-dielectric structures can have high transmission.
Enhancement of NL phase shift over bulk metal
Linear transmission of PBG sample at l = 650 nm.
Copper layers 16 nm thick
• And produce enhanced nonlinear phase shifts!
1-D Metal/Dielectric PBG structures
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Nonlinear Susceptibility of Bulk Copper
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• Near interband threshold, Fermi smearing is dominant nonlinear process
• We find Im c(3) >> Re c(3) at all wavelengths where response is measurable
• Width of resonance is approximately 4 kT(Hache et al., Appl. Phys. A 47, 347-357 (1988))
Z-Scan Comparison of M/D PBG and Bulk Sample
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Spectral Dependence of the Nonlinear Response
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Conclusions
We experimentally demonstrated enhanced nonlinearresponse of 1 -D MD PBG structure. The enhancement factor was measured to be as high as 35.
We produced a stable, artificial, solid-state NLO materialwith a tunable transmission band and high damagethreshold.