Journal
ACS PHOTONICS
Volume 8, Issue 3, Pages 716-720Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c01929
Keywords
time-varying medium; epsilon-near-zero; metasurface; frequency conversion; nonlinear optics; plasmonics
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- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the NLM Nascent Light-Matter Interactions Program [W911NF-18-0369]
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The study found that using a metasurface made of a plasmonic antenna array on a thin indium tin oxide (ITO) can change the frequency of a light beam through self-action effect. Experimentally, it was observed that optical excitation of a 92 nm thick metasurface led to an intensity-dependent blueshift of the excitation pulse, with an energy requirement up to 200 times lower than using ITO alone.
A light beam's frequency can blueshift when the beam travels through a medium that exhibits a time-dependent decrease in the refractive index. Here we show that a metasurface made of a plasmonic antenna array on a thin indium tin oxide (ITO), which exhibits epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) response, can behave as a time-varying medium and change the frequency of a sufficiently strong light beam through self-action effect. Specifically, we observe that a near-resonant optical excitation of the 92 nm thick metasurface leads to an intensity-dependent blueshift of the excitation pulse. We measured a maximum blueshift of similar to 1.6 THz with similar to 4 GW/cm(2) incident intensity. The observed effect using an ITO-based ENZ metasurface has an energy requirement that is up to 200X lower than implementations using ITO alone.
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