In-fibre second-harmonic generation with embedded two-dimensional materials

in: Nature Photonics (2022)
Ngo, Gia Quyet; Najafidehaghani, Emad; Gan, Ziyang; Khazaee, Sara; Siems, Malte Per; George, Antony; Schartner, Erik P.; Nolte, Stephan; Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Heike; Pertsch, Thomas; Tuniz, Alessandro; Schmidt, Markus A.; Peschel, Ulf; Turchanin, Andrey; Eilenberger, Falk
Silica-based optical fibres are a workhorse of nonlinear optics, providing ready access to a range of nonlinear phenomena including solitons and self-phase modulation. However, they have one fundamental limitation: due to the amorphous nature of silica, they do not exhibit second-order nonlinearity, except for negligible contributions from surfaces. Here we demonstrate second-harmonic generation in functionalized optical fibres by using a monolayer of highly nonlinear MoS2 directly grown on the fibre’s core. The MoS2-functionalized fibre exhibits a second-order susceptibility (÷(2)) value of 44 pm V–1 and a second-harmonic generation conversion efficiency of 0.2 × 10–3 m−2 W−1. This approach is scalable and can be generalized to other transition metal dichalcogenides and a wide range of waveguide systems. Our results demonstrate a new approach towards efficient in-fibre second-harmonic generation sources and may establish a platform for ÷(2)-based nonlinear fibre optics, optoelectronics, photonics platforms, integrated optical architectures and active fibre networks.

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