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. 2019 Nov 11;13(1):35–49. doi: 10.1007/s12200-019-0946-x

Research development on fabrication and optical properties of nonlinear photonic crystals

Huangjia Li 1, Boqin Ma 1,✉
PMCID: PMC9743886  PMID: 36641585

Abstract

Since the lasers at fixed wavelengths are unable to meet the requirements of the development of modern science and technology, nonlinear optics is significant for overcoming the obstacle. Investigation on frequency conversion in ferroelectric nonlinear photonic crystals with different superlattices has been being one of the popular research directions in this field. In this paper, some mature fabrication methods of nonlinear photonic crystals are concluded, for example, the electric poling method at room temperature and the femtosecond direct laser writing technique. Then the development of nonlinear photonic crystals with one-dimensional, two-dimensional and three-dimensional superlattices which are used in quasi-phase matching and nonlinear diffraction harmonic generation is introduced. In the meantime, several creative applications of nonlinear photonic crystals are summarized, showing the great value of them in an extensive practical area, such as communication, detection, imaging, and so on.

Keywords: quasi-phase matching (QPM), nonlinear diffraction (ND), superlattice, nonlinear photonic crystal (NPC), reciprocal lattice vector (RLV)

Acknowledgements

The work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2018CUCTJ043).

Footnotes

Huangjia Li received the bachelor degree of engineering from Communication University of China. She is currently pursuing the master degree in School of Data Science and Media Intelligence, Communication University of China. Her present research work involves the nonlinear photonic crystals with snowflake superlattices and their nonlinear optical properties.

Boqin Ma received the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in the field of Optics in 2005. Since then, she joined the Faculty of Science and Technology, Communication University of China. In 2011, she received the position of associate professor. She has been working on the nonlinear interactions between nonlinear photonic crystals and laser beams.

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