Nonlinear metasurfaces: a paradigm shift in nonlinear optics

Gradient Nonlinear Pancharatnam-Berry Metasurfaces.

We apply the Pancharatnam-Berry phase approach to plasmonic metasurfaces loaded by highly nonlinear multiquantum-well substrates, establishing a platform to control the nonlinear wave front at will based on giant localized nonlinear effects. We apply this approach to design flat nonlinear metasurfaces for efficient second-harmonic radiation, including beam steering, focusing, and polarization m...

Nonlinear Optics Basics: Kramers-Krönig Relations in Nonlinear Optics

Experimental nonlinear sign shift for linear optics quantum computation.

We have realized the nonlinear sign shift operation for photonic qubits. This operation shifts the phase of two photons reflected by a beam splitter using an extra single photon and measurement. We show that the conditional phase shift is (1.05+/-0.06)pi in clear agreement with theory. Our results show that, by using an ancilla photon and conditional detection, nonlinear optical effects can be ...

Nonlinear Beam Shaping with Plasmonic Metasurfaces

We present here a method for generating second-harmonic beams with tailored beam profiles using nonlinear metasurfaces based on split ring resonators. By manipulating both the phase and the amplitude of the quadratic nonlinear coefficient locally, at the single inclusion level, the emitted secondharmonic wavefront is perfectly controlled. These concepts are demonstrated experimentally by the fa...

Dispersive nonlinear geometric optics

We construct infinitely accurate approximate solutions to systems of hyperbolic partial differential equations which model short wavelength dispersive nonlinear phenomena. The principal themes are the following. ~1! The natural framework for the study of dispersion is wavelength e solutions of systems of partial differential operators in e]. The natural e-characteristic equation and e-eikonal e...