Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Photon acceleration and tunable broadband harmonics generation in nonlinear time-dependent metasurfaces

  • Maxim R. Shcherbakov,
  • Kevin Werner,
  • Zhiyuan Fan,
  • Noah Talisa,
  • Enam Chowdhury,
  • Gennady Shvets

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09313-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Photon acceleration, which can be used to generate tunable high harmonic radiation, typically requires high-intensity lasers and long propagation distances. Here, Shcherbakov et al. show efficient photon acceleration at low power input power from a semiconductor metasurface, less than a micron thin.