Saturation of the second harmonic generation from GaAs-filled metallic hole arrays by nonlinear absorption

Jingyu Zhang,1 Li Wang,1 Sanjay Krishna,1 Mansoor Sheik-Bahae,2 and S. R. J. Brueck1,* 1Center for High Technology Materials and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, 1313 Goddard SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106, USA 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, 800 Yale Boulevard NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA (Received 19 August 2010; revised manuscript received 31 January 2011; published 25 April 2011)