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Measuring the Nonlinear Refractive Index of Graphene using the Optical Kerr Effect Method

Optics 2016-08-02 v1

Abstract

By means of the ultrafast optical Kerr effect method coupled to optical heterodyne detection (OHD-OKE), we characterize the third order nonlinear response of graphene at telecom wavelength, and compare it to experimental values obtained by the Z-scan method on the same samples. From these measurements, we estimate a negative nonlinear refractive index for monolayer graphene, n2=1.1×1013m2/Wn_2 = - 1.1\times 10^{-13} m^2/W. This is in contradiction to previously reported values, which leads us to compare our experimental measurements obtained by the OHD-OKE and the Z-scan method with theoretical and experimental values found in the literature, and to discuss the discrepancies, taking into account parameters such as doping.

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@article{arxiv.1607.00911,
  title  = {Measuring the Nonlinear Refractive Index of Graphene using the Optical Kerr Effect Method},
  author = {Evdokia Dremetsika and Bruno Dlubak and Simon-Pierre Gorza and Charles Ciret and Marie-Blandine Martin and Stephan Hofmann and Pierre Seneor and Daniel Dolfi and Serge Massar and Philippe Emplit and Pascal Kockaert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.00911},
  year   = {2016}
}

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To be published in Optics Letters