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ArticleNature communications2025

Unconventional high-harmonic generation in resonant membrane metasurfaces.

Pavel Tonkaev, Felix Richter, Ivan Toftul, Maria Antonietta Vincenti, Ivan Sinev, Michael Scalora, Hatice Altug, Yuri Kivshar

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Pavel Tonkaev *Nonlinear Physics Center, Research School of Physics, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1849-0653
Felix Richter *Institute of Bioengineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8410-9131
Ivan ToftulNonlinear Physics Center, Research School of Physics, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3588-5403
Maria Antonietta VincentiDepartment of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6698-2973
Ivan SinevInstitute of Bioengineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4246-7747
Michael ScaloraAviation and Missile Center, U.S. Army CCDC, Redstone Arsenal, AL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9559-7601
Hatice AltugInstitute of Bioengineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. hatice.altug@epfl.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5522-1343
Yuri KivsharNonlinear Physics Center, Research School of Physics, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia. yuri.kivshar@anu.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3410-812X

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Department of Education and Training | Australian Research Council (ARC) DP210101292
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Abstract

High-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has rapidly emerged as a promising platform for creating compact attosecond sources and probing ultrafast electron dynamics. Resonant metasurfaces provide essential features for harmonic generation, increasing its efficiency through local field enhancement and enabling to lift phase matching constraints in the process. Metasurface-enhanced HHG is believed to follow the conventional integer-power scaling laws that hold for non-resonant bulk HHG. Here, we discover that highly resonant metasurfaces driven by quasi-bound states in the continuum break this principle, manifesting non-integer intensity dependencies of the generated harmonic powers. We experimentally and theoretically show that these unconventional nonlinearities are enabled by the strong local fields arising from the high-Q resonances. The resonant local fields substantially alter the contribution of higher-order susceptibility tensors to the effective nonlinearities of the system. Our findings reveal how harmonic generation rooted in modification of effective nonlinear susceptibilities driven by resonant fields can reshape our understanding of light-matter interaction at the nanoscale.

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