Dual bound states in the continuum enhanced second harmonic generation with transition metal dichalcogenides monolayer

Peilong Hong; Lei Xu; Mohsen Rahmani

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Hong PL, Xu L, Rahmani M. Dual bound states in the continuum enhanced second harmonic generation with transition metal dichalcogenides monolayer. Opto-Electron Adv 5, 200097 (2022). doi: 10.29026/oea.2022.200097

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Hong PL, Xu L, Rahmani M. Dual bound states in the continuum enhanced second harmonic generation with transition metal dichalcogenides monolayer. Opto-Electron Adv 5, 200097 (2022). doi: 10.29026/oea.2022.200097

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Dual bound states in the continuum enhanced second harmonic generation with transition metal dichalcogenides monolayer

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School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu 611731, China
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Advanced Optics & Photonics Laboratory, Department of Engineering, School of Science & Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG11 8NS, UK

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^*Corresponding authors: PL Hong, E-mail: plhong@uestc.edu.cn; L Xu, E-mail: lei.xu@ntu.ac.uk

Received Date 21 December 2020

Accepted Date 11 March 2021

Available Online 24 June 2022

Published Date 25 July 2022

Abstract

Abstract

The emergence of two dimensional (2D) materials has opened new possibilities for exhibiting second harmonic generation (SHG) at the nanoscale, due to their remarkable optical response related to stable excitons at room temperature. However, the ultimate atomic-scale interaction length with light makes the SHG of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) monolayers naturally weak. Here, we propose coupling a monolayer of TMDs with a photonic grating slab that works with doubly resonant bound states in the continuum (BIC). The BIC slabs are designed to exhibit a pair of BICs, resonant with both the fundamental wave (FW) and the second harmonic wave (SHW). Firstly, the spatial mode matching can be fulfilled by tilting FW's incident angle. We theoretically demonstrate that this strategy leads to more than four orders of magnitude enhancement of SHG efficiency than a sole monolayer of TMDs, under a pump light intensity of 0.1 GW/cm². Moreover, we demonstrate that patterning the TMDs monolayer can further enhance the spatial overlap coefficient, which leads to an extra three orders of magnitude enhancement of SHG efficiency. These results demonstrate remarkable possibilities for enhancing SHG with nonlinear 2D materials, opening many opportunities for chip-based light sources, nanolasers, imaging, and biochemical sensing.
- second harmonic generation /
- transition metal dichalcogenides /
- bound state in the continuum /
- photonic grating slab

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