Showing posts with label nonlinear photonics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nonlinear photonics. Show all posts

August 1, 2014

Scientists have created a meta-mirror

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.