Efficient ultrafast all-optical modulation in a nonlinear crystalline gallium phosphide nanodisk at the anapole excitation
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Journal Article
Abstract
High–refractive index nanostructured dielectrics have the ability to locally enhance electromagnetic fields with low losses while presenting high third-order nonlinearities. In this work, we exploit these characteristics to achieve efficient ultrafast all-optical modulation in a crystalline gallium phosphide (GaP) nanoantenna through the optical Kerr effect (OKE) and two-photon absorption (TPA) in the visible/near-infrared range. We show that an individual GaP nanodisk can yield differential reflectivity modulations of up to ~40%, with characteristic modulation times between 14 and 66 fs, when probed at the anapole excitation (AE). Numerical simulations reveal that the AE represents a unique condition where both the OKE and TPA contribute with the same modulation sign, maximizing the response. These findings highly outperform previous reports on sub–100-fs all-optical switching from resonant nanoscale dielectrics, which have demonstrated modulation depths no larger than 0.5%, placing GaP nanoantennas as a promising choice for ultrafast all-optical modulation at the nanometer scale.
Date Issued
2020-08-01
Date Acceptance
2020-08-01
Citation
Science Advances, 2020, 6 (34)
ISSN
2375-2548
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Journal / Book Title
Science Advances
Volume
6
Issue
34
Copyright Statement
©2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original US Government works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC-BY-NC 4.0)
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Science & Technology - Other Topics
3RD HARMONIC-GENERATION
2ND-HARMONIC GENERATION
3RD-HARMONIC GENERATION
SYMMETRY
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN eabb3123