TY - JOUR
T1 - Tailorable second-harmonic generation from an individual nanowire using spatially phase-shaped beams
AU - Turquet, Léo
AU - Kakko, Joona Pekko
AU - Zang, Xiaorun
AU - Naskali, Liisa
AU - Karvonen, Lasse
AU - Jiang, Hua
AU - Huhtio, Teppo
AU - Kauppinen, Esko
AU - Lipsanen, Harri
AU - Kauranen, Martti
AU - Bautista, Godofredo
PY - 2017/1
Y1 - 2017/1
N2 - The ability to control the optical field in the vicinity of an individual nano-object is an obvious stepping-stone in the tailoring of light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. Earlier reports on tailoring light fields in the vicinity of a nano-object have been restricted by their dependence on cumbersome optical or fabrication techniques, have relied mostly on in-plane electric field polarizations, and have been demonstrated only for bulk materials and structures with strong in-plane anisotropies. In addition, traditional methods for manipulating the longitudinal electric fields are significantly hindered by the lack of appropriate probes that can be used to unambiguously measure or calibrate the light coupling efficiency to nano-objects. Here, we demonstrate such a possibility for the specific case of optical second-harmonic generation (SHG). Our technique relies on spatial phase-shaping of a high-order laser beam to tailor the longitudinal fields at the beam focus and allows SHG from an individual and well-defined vertically-aligned GaAs nanowire to be manipulated on demand. Our technique is applicable to tailoring the efficiency of nonlinear emission on the nanoscale and to arbitrary polarization control at the beam focus in general.
AB - The ability to control the optical field in the vicinity of an individual nano-object is an obvious stepping-stone in the tailoring of light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. Earlier reports on tailoring light fields in the vicinity of a nano-object have been restricted by their dependence on cumbersome optical or fabrication techniques, have relied mostly on in-plane electric field polarizations, and have been demonstrated only for bulk materials and structures with strong in-plane anisotropies. In addition, traditional methods for manipulating the longitudinal electric fields are significantly hindered by the lack of appropriate probes that can be used to unambiguously measure or calibrate the light coupling efficiency to nano-objects. Here, we demonstrate such a possibility for the specific case of optical second-harmonic generation (SHG). Our technique relies on spatial phase-shaping of a high-order laser beam to tailor the longitudinal fields at the beam focus and allows SHG from an individual and well-defined vertically-aligned GaAs nanowire to be manipulated on demand. Our technique is applicable to tailoring the efficiency of nonlinear emission on the nanoscale and to arbitrary polarization control at the beam focus in general.
KW - Longitudinal electric field
KW - Nanowire
KW - Polarization
KW - Second-harmonic generation
KW - Spatial light modulation
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U2 - 10.1002/lpor.201600175
DO - 10.1002/lpor.201600175
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85006137920
SN - 1863-8880
VL - 11
JO - Laser and Photonics Reviews
JF - Laser and Photonics Reviews
IS - 1
M1 - 1600175
ER -