Local‐to‐Nonlocal Second‐Harmonic Generation from Electrically Tunable Intersubband Polaritonic Metasurfaces
Nonlinear optical metasurfaces enable subwavelength control of light-matter interactions, yet simultaneous tunability of harmonic signal intensity and spectral response remains a fundamental challenge. Here, a local-to-nonlocal second harmonic (SH) generation process is presented, enabled by an electrically tunable polaritonic metasurface, allowing independent control of the SH spectral peak wavelength and intensity. The metasurface combines a localized surface plasmon resonance at the fundamental frequency with a transverse magnetic guided-mode resonance at the SH frequency. By engineering modal overlap within a multiple quantum well layer, voltage-controlled modulation of SH intensity and angle-controlled spectral tuning is achieved, demonstrating two decoupled degrees of freedom associated with local and nonlocal modes. Angle-resolved nonlinear reflection measurements confirm the independent tunability of the metasurface, validating the separation of excitation and emission pathways. This hybrid approach provides a general framework for nonlinear metasurfaces with enhanced flexibility and functional control, paving the way for applications in nonlinear signal processing, angle-multiplexed photonics, and entangled photon-pair generation for quantum optics.
Authors
- Mikhail A. Belkin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3172-9462)
- Seongjin Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2931-392X)
- Jaesung Kim
- Gerhard Boehm
- Hyeongju Chung
- Jongwon Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3878-0650)
Institutions
- Schott (Germany) (DE)
- Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (KR)
- Technical University of Munich (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advanced Science
- Published
- 2025-11-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202518776
- Primary Topic
- Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Research Foundation
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- National Research Foundation of Korea
- Technische Universität München
- Iran Telecommunication Research Center
- Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea
- Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion