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OPTICS LETTERS
Volume 46, Issue 4, Pages 845-848Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OL.416948
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- H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions [778156]
- Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wy.zszego [W13/H2020/2018 (Dec. MNiSW 3871/H2020/2018/2)]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB 986, 192346071]
- Wroclawskie Centrum Sieciowo-Superkomputerowe, Politechnika Wroclawska [160]
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The study demonstrates that a reliable and accessible tool for designing materials with nonlinear meta-optics can be achieved by combining large-scale, self-organized nanoporosity in monolithic solids with confinement-controllable orientational order of chromophores.
Second-order nonlinear optics is the base for a large variety of devices aimed at the active manipulation of light. However, physical principles restrict its occurrence to non-centrosymmetric, anisotropic matter. This significantly limits the number of base materials exhibiting nonlinear optics. Here, we show that embedding chromophores in an array of conical channels 13 nm across in monolithic silica results in mesoscopic anisotropic matter and thus in a hybrid material showing second-harmonic generation. This nonlinear optics is compared to the one achieved in corona-poled polymer films containing the identical chromophores. It originates in the confinement-induced orientational order of the elongated guest molecules in the nanochannels. This leads to a non-centrosymmetric dipolar order and hence to a nonlinear light-matter interaction on the sub-wavelength, single-pore scale. Our study demonstrates that the advent of large-scale, self-organized nanoporosity in monolithic solids along with the confinement-controllable orientational order of chromophores at the single-pore scale provides a reliable and accessible tool to design materials with a nonlinear meta-optics. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America
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