Non-linear materials are cornerstones of modern optics and *** dependence on the intrinsic properties of particular materials,however,inhibits the at-will extension of demanding non-linear effects,especially those sec...
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Non-linear materials are cornerstones of modern optics and *** dependence on the intrinsic properties of particular materials,however,inhibits the at-will extension of demanding non-linear effects,especially those second-order ones,to widely adopted centrosymmetric materials(for example,silicon) and te chnologically important burgeoning spectral domains(for example,terahertz frequencies).Here we introduce a universal route to efficient non-linear responses enabled by exciting non-linear Thomson scattering,a fundamental process in electrodynamics that was known to occur only in relativistic electrons in metamaterial composed of linear *** a mechanism modulates the trajectory of charges,either intrinsically or extrinsically provided in solids,at twice the driving frequency,allowing second-harmonic generation at terahertz frequencies on crystalline silicon with extremely large non-linear susceptibility in our proof-of-concept *** offering a substantially material-and frequency-independent platform,our approach opens new possibilities in the fields of on-demand non-linear optics,terahertz sources,strong field light-solid interactions and integrated photonic circuits.
Achieving effcient,high-power harmonic generation in the terahertz spectral domain has technological applications,for example,in sixth generation(6G)communication *** Dirac fermions possess extremely large terahertz n...
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Achieving effcient,high-power harmonic generation in the terahertz spectral domain has technological applications,for example,in sixth generation(6G)communication *** Dirac fermions possess extremely large terahertz nonlinear susceptibilities and harmonic conversion ***,the observed maximum generated harmonic power is limited,because of saturation effects at increasing incident powers,as shown recently for ***,we demonstrate room-temperature terahertz harmonic generation in a Bi_(2)Se_(3) topological insulator and topological-insulator-grating metamaterial structures with surface-selective terahertz field *** obtain a third-harmonic power approaching the miliwatt range for an incident power of 75 mW-an improvement by two orders of magnitude compared to a benchmarked graphene *** establish a framework in which this exceptional performance is the result of thermodynamic harmonic generation by the massless topological surface states,benefiting from ultrafast dissipation of electronic heat via surface-bulk Coulomb *** results are an important step towards on-chip terahertz(opto)electronic applications.
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