Tungsten Disulfide-Gold Nanohole Hybrid Metasurfaces for Nonlinear Metalenses in the Visible Region.

Abstract

Recently, nonlinear hybrid metasurface comes into an attractive new concept in the research of nanophotonics and nanotechnology. It is composed of semiconductors with an intrinsically large nonlinear susceptibility and traditional plasmonic metasurfaces, offering opportunities for efficiently generating and manipulating nonlinear optical responses. A high second-harmonic generation (SHG) conversion efficiency has been demonstrated in the mid-infrared region by using multiquantum-well (MQW)-based plasmonic metasurfaces. However, it has yet to be demonstrated in the visible region. Here, we present a new type of nonlinear hybrid metasurfaces for the visible region, which consists of a single layer of tungsten disulfide (WS2) and a phased gold nanohole array. The results indicate that a large SHG susceptibility of ∼10-1 nm/V at 810 nm is achieved, which is 2-3 orders of magnitude larger than that of typical plasmonic metasurfaces. Nonlinear metalenses with the focal lengths of 30, 50, and 100 μm are demonstrated experimentally, providing a direct evidence for both generating and manipulating SH signals based on the nonlinear hybrid metasurfaces. It shows great potential applications in designing of integrated, ultrathin, compacted, and efficient nonlinear optical devices, such as frequency converters, nonlinear holography, and the generation of nonlinear optical vortex beams.