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Focusing light down to subwavelength scales to enhance the light-matter interaction has been highly sought after, which has promoted significant researches and applications in nanophotonics. Plasmonic nanoantennae are a significant tool to achieve this goal since they can confine light into ultra-small volumes far below the diffraction limit. However, metallic materials have the property of central symmetry, resulting in weak second-order nonlinear effects. Here, we design plasmonic bowtie nanoantennae on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) for deep-subwavelength light confinement to boost the second-harmonic generation (SHG) in TFLN via the plasmonic hotspot enhancement. The SHG enhancement factor of about 20 times as compared to unpatterned TFLN is achieved in the experiment when resonantly excited by femtosecond laser. This work proposes a route for subwavelength nonlinear optics on the TFLN platform.
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