Surface third-harmonic generation at a two-photon-polymerized micro-interferometer for real-time on-chip refractive index monitoring

A micro-interferometer based on surface third-harmonic generation (THG) at twophoton- polymerized SU-8 cuboids for real-time monitoring of the refractive index changes of target fluids, which can be easily integrated into microfluidic photonic systems, is demonstrated. The third-harmonic (TH) int...

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Main Authors: Kim, Seung-Woo, Sandeep, C. S. Suchand, Jiao, Jiannan, Gao, Yi, Li, Shufan, Anh, Nguyen Duy, Su, Pei-Chen, Kim, Young-Jin
Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104482
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/50028
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:A micro-interferometer based on surface third-harmonic generation (THG) at twophoton- polymerized SU-8 cuboids for real-time monitoring of the refractive index changes of target fluids, which can be easily integrated into microfluidic photonic systems, is demonstrated. The third-harmonic (TH) interferogram is selectively generated only from the target volume by a simple vertical pumping, thereby eliminating the needs for complicated coupling and alignments. The dependence of the generated TH to the input pump polarization state is thoroughly investigated. The THG efficiency by linearly polarized excitation is found to be 2.6 × 10−7, which is the most efficient at the SU-8-air interface and independent of the input polarization direction. The THG efficiency from the SU-8-air interface is 12.17 times higher than that from the glass-air interface and 4.93 times higher than that from the SU-8- glass interface. Real-time monitoring of argon gas pressure is demonstrated using the microinterferometer. The surface TH from two-photon-polymerized 3D structures offers novel design flexibility to the nonlinear optical light sources for microfluidic and microelectronic devices.