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Third harmonic generation (THG) has proven its value in surface and interface characterization, high-contrast bio-imaging, and sub-wavelength light manipulation. Although THG is observed widely in general solid and liquid substances, when laser pulses are focused at nanometer-level ultra-thin films, the bulk THG has been reported to play the dominant role. However, there are still third harmonics (TH) generated at the surface of the thin-films, not inside the bulk solid - so-called surface TH, whose relative contribution has not been quantitatively revealed to date. In this study, we quantitatively characterized the surface and bulk contributions of THG at ultra-thin β-GaO nanomembranes with control of both the laser and thin-nanomembranes parameters, including the laser peak power, polarization state, number of layers, and nanomembranes thicknesses. Their contributions were studied in detail by analyzing the TH from freestanding β-GaO nanomembranes compared with TH from β-GaO nanomembranes on glass substrates. The contribution of the TH field from the β-GaO-air interface was found to be 5.12 times more efficient than that from the β-GaO-glass interface, and also 1.09 times stronger than the TH excited at bulk 1-μm-thick β-GaO. Besides, TH from the β-GaO-air interface was found to be 20% more sensitive to the crystalline structure than that from the β-GaO-glass interface. This research work deepens our understanding of surface and bulk THG from crystalline materials and provides new possibilities towards designing highly efficient nonlinear optical materials for bio-imaging, energy-harvesting, and ultrafast laser development.
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