Observing the interplay between surface and bulk optical nonlinearities in thin van der Waals crystals

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Van der Waals materials, existing in a range of thicknesses from monolayer to bulk, allow for interplay between surface and bulk nonlinearities, which otherwise dominate only at atomically-thin or bulk extremes, respectively. Here, we observe an unexpected peak in intensity of the generated second harmonic signal versus the thickness of Indium Selenide crystals, in contrast to the quadratic increase expected from thin crystals. We explain this by interference effects between surface and bulk nonlinearities, which offer a new handle on engineering the nonlinear optical response of 2D materials and their heterostructures.

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Deckoff-Jones, Skylar, Zhang, Jingjing, Petoukhoff, Christopher E., et al.. "Observing the interplay between surface and bulk optical nonlinearities in thin van der Waals crystals." Scientific Reports, 6, (2016) Macmillan Publishers Limited: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep22620.

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