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Highly efficient phase-matched second harmonic generation using an asymmetric plasmonic slot waveguide configuration
Jihua Zhang1, Eric Cassan, Dingshan Gao
1Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectonics & School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
Abstract:
We theoretically investigate the possible increase of the second harmonic generation (SHG) efficiency in silicon compatible waveguides by considering an asymmetrical plasmonic slot waveguide geometry and a χ((2)) nonlinear polymer infiltrating the slot. The needed phase matching condition is satisfied between the fundamental waveguide mode at the fundamental frequency (FF) and second-order waveguide mode at the second harmonic frequency (SHF) by an appropriate design of the waveguide opto-geometrical parameters. The SHG signal generated in our starting waveguide is three orders of magnitude higher than those previously reported for a FF corresponding to λ = 1550 nm. Then, the SHG performance was further improved by increasing the asymmetry of the structure where nonlinear coupling coefficients as large as 292 psm(-1)W(-1/2) are predicted. The device length is shorter than 20 µm and the normalized SHG conversion efficiency comes up to more than 1 × 10(5) W(-1)cm(-2).
