Second-harmonic generation and manipulation in lithium niobate slab waveguides by grating metasurfaces

Bin Fang; Hanmeng Li; Shining Zhu; Tao Li

doi:10.1364/PRJ.391850

Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 8, 1296(2020)

Second-harmonic generation and manipulation in lithium niobate slab waveguides by grating metasurfaces

Bin Fang^1,2, Hanmeng Li^1,2, Shining Zhu^1,2, and Tao Li^1,2、*

¹National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Integration, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

²Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing 210093, China

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Paper Information

Category: Nonlinear Optics

Received: Mar. 11, 2020

Accepted: Jun. 1, 2020

Published Online: Jul. 14, 2020

The Author Email: Tao Li (taoli@nju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.391850

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