Enhancing the Three-Photon Luminesce via the Resonance in Lead Halide Perovskite Metasurfaces

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that resonance in lead halide perovskite metasurfaces significantly enhances three-photon luminescence, enabling advanced applications like high-resolution nonlinear nanoprinting and optical encoding.

Contribution

It introduces a method to enhance three-photon luminescence in perovskite metasurfaces via resonance, with potential for innovative nanophotonic applications.

Findings

Three-photon luminescence is enhanced by a factor of 60.

Resonance in metasurfaces enables encoding visible information.

Enhanced luminescence is effective even with small period metasurfaces.

Abstract

Lead halide perovskites (MAPbX3) have emerged as promising materials for photovoltaic and optoelectronic devices. However, their exceptional nonlinear properties have not been fully exploited in nanophotonics yet. Herein we fabricate MAPbX3 perovskite metasurfaces and explore their internal nonlinear processes. While both of third-order harmonic generation (THG) and three-photon luminescence are generated, the latter one is less affected by the material loss and has been significantly enhanced by a factor of 60. The corresponding simulation reveals that the improvement is caused by the resonant enhancement of incident laser in perovskite metasurface. Interestingly, such kind of resonance-enhanced three-photon luminescence holds true for metasurfaces with a small period number of 4, enabling new applications of perovskite metasurface in high-resolution nonlinear color nanoprinting and optical encoding. The encoded information "NANO" is visible only when the incident laser is on-resonance. The off-resonance pumping and the single-photon excitation just produce a uniform dark or photoluminescence background.