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Restoring the silenced surface second-harmonic generation in split-ring resonators by magnetic and electric mode matching

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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 27, Issue 19, Pages 26377-26391

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OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.27.026377

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [11574228, 11874276]
  2. Hong Kong Research Grants Council [GRF 15303417]
  3. San Jin Scholars Program of Shanxi Province

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Surface second-harmonic generation (SHG) in plasmonic metal nanostructures provides a promising approach to design compact and ultrafast nonlinear nanophotonics devices. However, typical plasmonic nanostructures, such as those with tiny gaps that provide strong near-field-amplified nonlinear sources, often suffer from the cancellation of nonlinear fields in the gaps, which results in the so-called silenced SHG and consequently attenuates the overall nonlinear conversion efficiency. In this study, we propose and demonstrate that the silenced SHG in a gold split-ring resonator can be effectively restored by carefully tailoring its gap geometry to avoid the cancellation of nonlinear fields in the gap and simultaneously achieve both spatial and frequency mode matching between the magnetic and the electric dipolar resonances. As a result, the effective nonlinear sources in the gap can be dramatically amplified and the surface secondharmonic emissions can be efficiently coupled out, leading to an SHG intensity enhancement of 7 times compared to a conventional split-ring resonator. The overall SHG conversion efficiency can thus be enlarged to about 1.49 x 10(-8) in the near-infrared excitation region. Importantly, the restored surface second-harmonic emission exhibits the scattering characteristics of an ideal electric dipole, which can be very useful for nonlinear far-field manipulation such as beam steering and holograms. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement

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