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Two-beam coupling by a hot electron nonlinearity

J. Paul·M. Miscuglio·Y. Gui·V. J. Sorger·J. K. Wahlstrand
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Transparent conductive oxides such as indium tin oxide (ITO) bear the potential to deliver efficient all-optical functionality due to their record-breaking optical nonlinearity at epsilon near zero (ENZ) wavelengths. All-optical applications generally involve more than one beam, but the coherent interaction between beams has not previously been discussed in materials with a hot electron nonlinearity. Here we study the optical nonlinearity at ENZ in ITO and show that spatial and temporal interference has important consequences in a two beam geometry. Our pump-probe results reveal a polarization-dependent transient that is explained by momentary diffraction of pump light into the probe direction by a temperature grating produced by pump-probe interference. We further show that this effect allows tailoring the nonlinearity by tuning frequency or chirp. Having fine control over the strong and ultrafast ENZ nonlinearity may enable applications in all-optical neural networks, nanophotonics, and spectroscopy.

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J. Paul, M. Miscuglio, Y. Gui, V. J. Sorger, J. K. Wahlstrand. 2020-08-28. Two-beam coupling by a hot electron nonlinearity. https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.12824

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