Nonlinear symmetry breaking in photometamaterials

Publication Type:
Journal Article
Citation:
Physical Review B, 2018, 97 (11)
Issue Date:
2018-03-09
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© 2018 American Physical Society. We design and analyze theoretically photometamaterials with each meta-atom containing both photodiode and light-emitting diode. Illumination of the photodiode by the light-emitting diode gives rise to an additional optical feedback within each unit cell, which strongly affects resonant properties and nonlinear response of the meta-atom. In particular, we demonstrate that inversion symmetry breaking occurs upon a certain threshold magnitude of the incident wave intensity resulting in an abrupt emergence of second-harmonic generation, which was not originally available, as well as in the reduced third-harmonic signal.
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