1Laboratoire de Photonique et de NanostructuresJournées Scientifiques de l'ONERA Large intrinsic birefringence in zinc-blende based artificial semiconductors P. Voisin J.M. Jancu, R. Magri Theory J.C. Harmand MBE G. Patriarche Structural analysis , TEM A. Talneau, K. Meunier Optics Laboratoire de Photonique et de NanostructuresJournées Scientifiques de l'ONERA Motivation: Semiconductor devices for optical frequency conversion using X(2) Zinc-blende III-V (possibly II-VI) semiconductors have promising features : large X(2), good thermal properties , mature epitaxial growth, opto-electronic and guided-optics technologies, availability of integrable pump lasers… Implementation of large native birefringence in artificial semiconductors ? Strong dispersion of optical index Cubic symmetry Challenge of phase matching w 2w nz?n n x
- index cubic symmetry
- large native
- dielectric function
- gasb ? need
- d2d symmetry
- conversion using
- zinc-blende based