Multifold Enhancement of Third-Harmonic Generation in Dielectric Nanoparticles Driven by Magnetic Fano Resonances

Nano Lett. 2016 Aug 10;16(8):4857-61. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01249. Epub 2016 Jul 15.

Abstract

Strong Mie-type magnetic dipole resonances in all-dielectric nanostructures provide novel opportunities for enhancing nonlinear effects at the nanoscale due to the intense electric and magnetic fields trapped within the individual nanoparticles. Here we study third-harmonic generation from quadrumers of silicon nanodisks supporting high-quality collective modes associated with the magnetic Fano resonance. We observe nontrivial wavelength and angular dependencies of the generated harmonic signal featuring a multifold enhancement of the nonlinear response in oligomeric systems.

Keywords: Fano resonance; Nonlinear optics; metamaterials; silicon photonics; third-harmonic generation.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't