Upconverted light from nanostructured metal surfaces can be produced by harmonic generation and multi-photon luminescence; however, these are weak processes and require extremely high field intensities to produce a measurable signal. Here we report on bright emission, five orders of magnitude greater than harmonic generation, that can be seen from metal tunnel junctions due to light-induced inelastic tunneling. Like inelastic tunneling light emission, which was recently reported to have 2% conversion efficiency per tunneling event, the emission wavelength recorded varies with the local electric field applied; however, here the field is from a 1560 nm femtosecond pulsed laser source. Finite-difference time-domain simulations of the experimental conditions show the local field is sufficient to generate tunneling-based inelastic light emission in the visible regime. This phenomenon is promising for producing ultrafast upconverted light emission with higher efficiency than conventional nonlinear processes. / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/11521 |
| Date | 27 January 2020 |
| Creators | Rakhmatov, Eradzh |
| Contributors | Gordon, Reuven |
| Source Sets | University of Victoria |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | Available to the World Wide Web |
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