Niobium oxide dichloride (NbOCl), a van der Waals crystal, exhibits exceptional second-harmonic generation (SHG) with high conversion efficiency, making it a promising candidate for on-chip quantum light sources, photon modulators, and sensors. To increase its suitability for integrated photonic systems, it is crucial to explore strategies for further improving optical nonlinear conversion efficiency. In this article, dielectric metasurfaces are employed to enhance SHG from patterned NbOCl nanodisks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA topological bound state in the continuum (TBIC) is a novel topological phase that has attracted significant attention. Different from conventional topological insulators (TIs), where boundary states reside within gaps, TBICs can support unconventional boundary states that remain isolated from the surrounding bulk states. In this work, we experimentally demonstrate multiple TBICs in photonic bilayer trimer lattices using femtosecond laser writing technology.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlasmonic nanoparticles enable manipulation and enhancement of light fields at deep subwavelength scales, leading to structures and devices for diverse applications in optics. Despite hybrid plasmonic materials display remarkable optical properties due to interactions between components in nanoproximity, scalable production of plasmonic nanostructures within a single-crystalline matrix to achieve an ideal plasmon-crystal interface remains challenging. Here, a novel approach is presented to realize efficient manipulation of in-lattice plasmonic nanoparticles.
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April 2024
Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals heterostructures (vdW HSs) composed of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have emerged as frontrunners in the optoelectronics field, owing to their exceptional optical and electrical properties. Recent research on the intrinsic interlayer charge transfer mechanism has been primarily focused on the Type II HSs, while metal-semiconductor (MS) vertical HSs, promising for advancing photodetector technology, have received comparatively less attention. Here, we reveal the first experimental observation of photothermionic effect-assisted ultrafast interlayer charge transfer in the NbS/MoS heterostructure using femtosecond transient absorption technology and first-principles calculations, effectively ignoring the Schottky barrier height.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe thickness-dependent third-order nonlinear optical properties of two-dimensional β-InSe and its potential applications as a saturable absorber in pulsed laser generation are investigated. InSe sheets with different layers are prepared by the chemical vapor deposition. Using open-aperture femtosecond Z-scan technique at 1030 nm, the modulation depth and nonlinear absorption coefficient are obtained to be 36% and -1.
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