• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 23, Issue 6, 061901 (2025)
Boyu Xu1,2,3, Xiao Xiong4, Rui Niu1, Guangyuan Qu5..., Chunhua Dong1,2,3, Guang-Can Guo1,2,3 and Xifeng Ren1,2,3,*|Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
  • 2CAS Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information & Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
  • 3Hefei National Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230088, China
  • 4State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • 5School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL202523.061901 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Boyu Xu, Xiao Xiong, Rui Niu, Guangyuan Qu, Chunhua Dong, Guang-Can Guo, Xifeng Ren, "Giant enhancement of second-harmonic generation from microcavity-integrated monolayer WS2," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 061901 (2025) Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Transition metal dichalcogenide two-dimensional (2D) materials, exhibiting extraordinary properties absent in their bulk forms, have garnered significant attention in the field of nonlinear optical devices. However, the atomic-level thickness limits the light absorption, which makes the intensity of the nonlinear signal extremely weak. Through transferring monolayer WS2 onto a silica microsphere, we report a giant second-harmonic generation (SHG) enhancement for approximately 1.46 × 107 times. The second-harmonic (SH) signal reaches 2.56 MHz pumped by a continuous wave laser of 2.5 mW. It is attributed to an enhancement of the pump laser due to the whispering gallery mode of the microsphere cavity. This work demonstrates the potential of microcavity-integrated monolayer 2D materials for nonlinear optics in integrated photonics.
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    {Pa(2ω)=4ε0dEa(ω)Eb(ω)Pb(2ω)=2ε0d[Ea(ω)2Eb(ω)2]Pz(2ω)=0.

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    Boyu Xu, Xiao Xiong, Rui Niu, Guangyuan Qu, Chunhua Dong, Guang-Can Guo, Xifeng Ren, "Giant enhancement of second-harmonic generation from microcavity-integrated monolayer WS2," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 061901 (2025)
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