Scientists from the University of Texas at Austin and the Technical University of Munich, has developed a thin-film metamaterial with a nonlinear optical properties.
In this case, the nonlinearity of the optical properties of the metamaterial shown thousands of times stronger than the non-linearity of conventional materials, which also have similar properties. And as a demonstration of its capabilities in this area, scientists have created a mirror thickness of just 400 nanometers reflects light whose frequency is exactly twice the frequency of the light incident on the surface of the mirror.
In this case, the nonlinearity of the optical properties of the metamaterial shown thousands of times stronger than the non-linearity of conventional materials, which also have similar properties. And as a demonstration of its capabilities in this area, scientists have created a mirror thickness of just 400 nanometers reflects light whose frequency is exactly twice the frequency of the light incident on the surface of the mirror.
