Arrangement and method for efficient non-linear light conversion

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12529838-B2
Application number	US-202117996455-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 28, 2021
Priority date	Apr 30, 2020
Publication date	Jan 20, 2026
Grant date	Jan 20, 2026

Abstract

The invention relates to an arrangement and a method for efficient, non-linear light conversion. The object of the present invention of specifying an arrangement for efficient, non-linear light conversion, which simultaneously optimally fulfills the local conversion rate, the interaction scale, and the dispersive properties, is achieved in that the arrangement is provided in the form of a component, which comprises an optical waveguide or an optical fiber with or without cavities, wherein said arrangement consists of fiber cladding substrate or waveguide substrate (IV) with an adapted geometry, which defines the light-guiding properties of the fiber mode with designed dispersion properties (VI), and wherein the waveguide or the core carries a grown, atomically-thin layer of transition metal dichalcogenides in the form of crystallites, wherein this layer completely or partially covers the waveguide or the core.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A light conversion arrangement in a form of an optical fiber with a core and with or without cavities, consisting of a fiber cladding substrate or a waveguide substrate (IV) with an adapted geometry, which defines the light-guiding properties of the fiber mode with designed dispersion properties (VI), characterized in that a core carries a grown, atomically-thin layer of transition metal dichalcogenides in the form of crystallites, wherein the layer completely or partially covers the core, the crystallites are stochastically ordered, and the layer is located as a monolayer on a wave-guiding region of the core and is grown directly on the core of the fiber by chemical vapor deposition or atomic layer deposition.

2 . The arrangement according to claim 1 , characterized in that the waveguide or the core carries the layer of transition metal dichalcogenides over a length of 30 μm up to a few centimeters.

3 . The arrangement according to claim 1 , characterized in that the transition metal dichalcogenides are MoS 2 , WS 2 , MoSe 2 , MoS 2(1−x) Se 2x , WS 2(1−x) Se 2x , MoS 2 WS 2 , MoSe 2 , WSe 2 , MoS 2 NbSe 2 , MoSe 2 NbSe 2 , MoSSe, or WSSe.

4 . The arrangement according to claim 1 , characterized in that the layer of transition metal dichalcogenides is provided with a cover layer.

5 . A method for producing an optical component according to claim 1 , in which, under a reactive atmosphere with precursor gases for the deposition of transition metal dichalcogenides directly on the surface of the waveguide or of the core (VI) during convective or forced transport of the atmosphere (V; VII) onto the surface (II) of the waveguide or of the core or of the inner surface (III), an atomically-thin layer of transition metal dichalcogenides is grown on said surface by means of chemical vapor deposition or atomic layer deposition in a reactor vessel for producing atmospheric parameters (VIII).

6 . The method according to claim 5 , characterized in that, after the growth of the layer of transition metal dichalcogenides, a post-treatment takes place in which a modification of the transition metal dichalcogenides takes place by induction of defects by means of plasma or by ion beam damage.

7 . The method according to claim 5 , characterized in that functionalization of the layer of transition metal dichalcogenides takes place by means of enrichment by means of coupling with selectively reactive groups.

8 . The method according to claim 5 , characterized in that functionalization of the layer of transition metal dichalcogenides by the passivation thereof takes place by overlaying with a protective layer.

9 . The arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the arrangement is designed for efficient, non-linear light conversion.

Assignees

• Univ Jena Friedrich Schiller
• Fraunhofer Ges Forschung

Inventors

• Eilenberger Falk
• Turchanin Andrey
• George Antony
• Schmidt Markus

Classifications

• G02F1/3544

  Particular phase matching techniques · CPC title

• G02F1/3536

  Four-wave interaction · CPC title

• G02F1/3534

  Three-wave interaction, e.g. sum-difference frequency generation (G02F1/3532 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G02B6/02395

  Glass optical fibre with a protective coating, e.g. two layer polymer coating deposited directly on a silica cladding surface during fibre manufacture (G02B6/02052, G02B6/02057, G02B6/024, G02B6/032, G02B6/105, G02B6/14 take precedence; coating on fibre gratings G02B6/02104; multilayer core or cladding G02B6/036; reinforcing splice joints G02B6/2558; optical cables, i.e. comprising protective structures external to the protective coating such as a jacket or plural coated optical fibres G02B6/44; coating of glass to obtain optical fibres C03C25/104) · CPC title

• G02F1/354

  Third or higher harmonic generation · CPC title