Abstract
A technique for obtaining efficient bulk second-order susceptibility in noncentrosymmetric photonic crystals (PC) made of centrosymmetric materials is discussed. The effect is based on the electric quadrupole effect, strong electromagnetic mode deformation, and nonhomogeneous contribution to volume polarization from different parts of the PC. The required symmetry breaking is introduced on the macroscale of the PC unit cell. The obtained structural ${\ensuremath{\chi}}_{\mathrm{str}}^{(2)}$ is comparable with the second-order susceptibility of ordinary nonlinear materials. Phase matching can be achieved by introducing symmetry modulation (quasi-phase-matching) during fabrication of the PC.
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