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Graphene, a two-dimensional material with a high mobility and a tunable conductivity, is uniquely suited for plasmonics. The frequency dispersion of plasmons in bulk graphene has been studied both theoretically and experimentally, whereas…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jared H. Strait , Parinita S. Nene , Wei-Min Chan , Christina Manolatou , Joshua W. Kevek , Sandip Tiwari , Paul L. McEuen , Farhan Rana

We propose a terahertz radiation source based on the excitation of plasma resonances in graphene structures by means of mixing two NIR laser signals with a THz difference frequency. The process is the photo-thermo-electric effect which has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-07 Don Schmadel , Gregory S. Jenkins , H. Dennis Drew

It is evidenced by numerical calculations that optically pumped graphene is suitable for compensating inherent loss in terahertz (THz) metamaterials. In a first step, the complex conductivity of graphene under optical pumping is calculated…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Peter Weis , Juan Luis Garcia-Pomar , Marco Rahm

Based on a structure consisting of a single graphene layer situated on a periodic dielectric grating, we show theoretically that intense terahertz (THz) radiations can be generated by an electron bunch moving atop the graphene layer. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 T. R. Zhan , D. Z. Han , X. H. Hu , X. H. Liu , S. T. Chui , J. Zi

Graphene plasmons confine incident terahertz fields far below the diffraction limit and, when hosted by a gate-defined Fabry-Perot cavity, enable electrically tunable, frequency-selective photodetectors. In a magnetic field, these plasmons…

We perform a comprehensive analysis of the spectrum of graphene plasmons which arise when a pair of sheets are confined between conducting materials. The associated enhanced local fields may be employed in the manipulation of light on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 Godfrey Gumbs , Dipendra Dahal , Antonios Balassis

There is increasing interest in filling the gap of miniaturized terahertz/mid-infrared radiation sources and, particularly, in incorporating these sources into micro/nanophotonic circuits. By using rigorous electromagnetic methods, we…

Two-dimensional graphene plasmon-based technologies will enable the development of fast, compact and inexpensive active photonic elements because, unlike plasmons in other materials, graphene plasmons can be tuned via the doping level. Such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-20 S. Chakraborty , O. P. Marshall , T. G. Folland , Y. -J. Kim , A. N. Grigorenko , K. S. Novoselov

Manipulation of subwavelength objects by engineering the electromagnetic waves in the environment medium is pivotal for several particle handling techniques. In this letter, we theoretically demonstrate the possibility of engineering a…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-14 Hernán Ferrari , Carlos J. Zapata-Rodríguez , Mauro Cuevas

We proposed multilayered graphene (Gr)-based surface plasmon resonance-induced high-performance terahertz (THz) modulators with tunable resonance frequencies. Several THz plasmonic modulators based on Gr metamaterials were previously…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-17 Dip Sarker , Partha Pratim Nakti , Ahmed Zubair

We discuss the properties of surface plasmons-polaritons in graphene and describe three possible ways of coupling electromagnetic radiation in the terahertz (THz) spectral range to this type of surface waves. (i) the attenuated total…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-18 Yu. V. Bludov , A. Ferreira , N. M. R. Peres , M. I. Vasilevskiy

Vertical plasmonic coupling in double-layer graphene leads to two hybridized plasmonic modes: optical and acoustic plasmons with symmetric and anti-symmetric charge distributions across the interlayer gap, respectively. However, in most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 In-Ho Lee , Tony Low , Luis Martín-Moreno , Phaedon Avouris , Sang-Hyun Oh

Here we study subwavelength gratings for coupling into graphene plasmons by means of an an- alytical model based on transformation optics that is not limited to very shallow gratings. We consider gratings that consist of a periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Paloma A. Huidobro , Matthias Kraft , Ren Kun , Stefan A. Maier , John B. Pendry

We predict the coexistence of both TE- and TM-polarized localized electromagnetic waves that can propagate \emph{in the same frequency range} along a graphene layer inserted in a photonic crystal. In addition, we studied the excitation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-14 Yu. O. Averkov , V. M. Yakovenko , V. A. Yampol'skii , Franco Nori

The short wavelength of graphene plasmons relative to the light wavelength makes them attractive for applications in optoelectronics and sensing. However, this property limits their coupling to external light and our ability to create and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-28 Sandra de Vega , F. Javier Garcia de Abajo

High input intensities are usually required to efficiently excite optical nonlinear effects in ultrathin structures. This problem is particularly critical at terahertz (THz) frequencies because high input power THz sources are not…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-27 Tianjing Guo , Boyuan Jin , Christos Argyropoulos

In this paper, we design and simulate a terahertz (THz) controllable active plasmonic waveguide structure based on a single graphene layer that is placed on a random silicon grating substrate. Optical gain in the proposed THz active…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-27 Abbas Ghasempour Ardakani , Peymaneh Rafieipour

Graphene supports strongly confined transverse-magnetic sheet plasmons whose spectral characteristics depend on the energetic distribution of Dirac particles. The question arises whether plasmons can become amplified when graphene is pumped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-05 A. Freddie Page , Fouad Ballout , Ortwin Hess , Joachim M. Hamm

The dispersion relation of surface plasmon polaritons in graphene that includes optical losses is often obtained for complex wave vectors while the frequencies are assumed to be real. This approach, however, is not suitable for describing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Zeeshan Ahmad , Egor A. Muljarov , Sang Soon Oh

We consider a periodically gated two-dimensional electron system, with a central gate finger biased independently creating a tunable plasmonic cavity in a planar plasmonic crystal. We demonstrate that the plasmons resonantly excited in the…

Optics · Physics 2012-12-12 Arthur R. Davoyan , Vyacheslav V. Popov , Sergey A. Nikitov