Enhancement of second harmonic generation in nanocrystalline SiC films based natural microcavities.

We explore second harmonic generation (SHG) features of nanocrystalline SiC films based natural microcavities (MC) with resonance modes in the vicinity of the fundamental radiation at 1064 nm wavelength for nanocrystalline films of 24R, 27R polytypes characterized by high radiation doubling frequency coefficients. The natural walls of the SiC NC serve a role of cavities. To learn the nonlinear resonance features of the MC near the fundamental wavelength 1064 nm three series of the nc-SiC films indicated as 7495, 7517 and 7522 with thicknesses varying within 250–600 nm were fabricated. The role of the coherent and non-coherent contributions with taking into an account of cavity resonance modes is discussed. The giant increase of the SHG was achieved which may be used for further fabrication of the frequency transducers and nonlinear optical triggers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]