Giant enhancement of THz-frequency optical nonlinearity by phonon polariton in ionic crystals

Optical nonlinearity in the THz range is of interest for scientific applications. Here the authors show that THz nonlinearity in ionic crystals can be enhanced by orders of magnitude through phonon polaritons, which is also described by nonlinear modified Huang equations.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yao Lu, Qi Zhang, Qiang Wu, Zhigang Chen, Xueming Liu, Jingjun Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23526-w