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ArticleACS photonics2023

Nonlinear THz Generation through Optical Rectification Enhanced by Phonon-Polaritons in Lithium Niobate Thin Films.

Luca Carletti, Cormac McDonnell, Unai Arregui Leon, Davide Rocco, Marco Finazzi, Andrea Toma, Tal Ellenbogen, Giuseppe Della Valle, Michele Celebrano, Costantino De Angelis

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Article in ACS photonics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Luca CarlettiDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6268-9817
Cormac McDonnellDepartment of Physical Electronics, Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 69978 Tel-Aviv, Israel.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1251-9339
Unai Arregui LeonDepartment of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5120-3380
Davide RoccoDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy.
Marco FinazziDepartment of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9197-3654
Andrea TomaIstituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 16163 Genova, Italy.
Tal EllenbogenDepartment of Physical Electronics, Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, 69978 Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Giuseppe Della ValleDepartment of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0117-2683
Michele CelebranoDepartment of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3336-3580
Costantino De AngelisDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8029-179X

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Abstract

We investigate nonlinear THz generation from lithium niobate films and crystals of different thicknesses by optical rectification of near-infrared femtosecond pulses. A comparison between numerical studies and polarization-resolved measurements of the generated THz signal reveals a 2 orders of magnitude enhancement in the nonlinear response compared to optical frequencies. We show that this enhancement is due to optical phonon modes at 4.5 and 7.45 THz and is most pronounced for films thinner than 2 μm where optical-to-THz conversion is not limited by self-absorption. These results shed new light on the employment of thin film lithium niobate platforms for the development of new integrated broadband THz emitters and detectors. This may also open the door for further control (e.g., polarization, directivity, and spectral selectivity) of the process in nanophotonic structures, such as nanowires and metasurfaces, realized in the thin film platform. We illustrate this potential by numerically investigating optical-to-THz conversion driven by localized surface phonon-polariton resonances in sub-wavelength lithium niobate rods.

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