Giant enhancement of harmonic generation in all-dielectric resonant waveguide gratings of quasi-bound states in the continuum

We report the giant enhanced optical harmonic generation in all-dielectric silicon nitride (SiN) based resonant waveguide gratings (RWGs) of quasi-bound states in the continuum (BICs) of ultra-high Q factor and localized field. The BICs are realized by tuning the excitation of the guided modes modulated by geometry parameters of four-part grating layer. At a feasible structure of quasi-BIC for nanofabrication, the SHG and THG are enhanced by 10(3) and 10(6), compared with those from the RWGs of traditional two-part grating layer, respectively, and even up to 10(8) and 10(10) compared with those from the planar SIN film, respectively. The resonance wavelength of quasi-BICs can be effectively tuned by the angle of incidence, while almost not affect the enhancement of SHG and THG response. Our results show that the efficiency harmonic generation from all-nonlinear-dielectric RWGs of quasi-BICs has potential applications for the integrated nonlinear photonic devices. (C) 2020 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement