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Metamaterial quasi-phase matching

The introduction of periodic inversion in the geometry of a plasmonic metasurface markedly boosts the efficiency of nonlinear processes in ultracompact structures.

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Figure 1: Nonlinear diffraction from a nonlinear metamaterial-based photonic crystal.

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Lepetit, T., Kanté, B. Metamaterial quasi-phase matching. Nature Photon 9, 148–150 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2015.30

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