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Graphene and related two-dimensional materials are promising candidates for atomically thin, flexible, and transparent optoelectronics. In particular, the strong light-matter interaction in graphene has allowed for the development of…

The ability to manipulate optical fields and the energy flow of light is central to modern information and communication technologies, as well as quantum information processing schemes. However, as photons do not possess charge, controlling…

We study the retardation regime of doped graphene plasmons, given by the nominal crossing of the unretarded plasmon and light-cone. In addition to modifications in the plasmon dispersion relation, retardation implies strong coupling between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-16 G. Gómez-Santos , T. Stauber

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 show that it is possible to realize significant nonlinear optical interactions at the few photon level in graphene nanostructures. Our approach takes advantage of the electric field enhancement associated with the strong confinement of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-11 M. Gullans , D. E. Chang , F. H. L. Koppens , F. J. García de Abajo , M. D. Lukin

Electrically tunable graphene plasmons are anticipated to enable strong light-matter interactions with resonant quantum emitters. However, plasmon resonances in graphene are typically limited to infrared frequencies, below those of optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Joel D. Cox , F. Javier García de Abajo

In recent years, we have seen a rapid progress in the field of graphene plasmonics, motivated by graphene's unique electrical and optical properties, tunabilty, long-lived collective excitation and their extreme light confinement. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-13 Tony Low , Phaedon Avouris

Amongst the wide spectrum of potential applications of graphene, ranging from transistors and chemical-sensors to nanoelectromechanical devices and composites, the field of photonics and optoelectronics is believed to be one of the most…

Graphene photonics has emerged as a promising platform for providing desirable optical functionality. However, graphene's monolayer-scale thickness fundamentally restricts the available light matter interaction, posing a critical design…

Optics · Physics 2017-05-11 PoHan Chang , Charles Lin , Amr S. Helmy

The combination of graphene with noble-metal nanostructures is currently being explored for strong light-graphene interaction enhanced by plasmons. We introduce a novel hybrid graphene-metal system for studying light-matter interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-10 Xiaolong Zhu , Lei Shi , Michael S. Schmidt , Anja Boisen , Ole Hansen , Jian Zi , Sanshui Xiao , N. Asger Mortensen

Surface plasmons are collective oscillations of electrons in metals or semiconductors enabling confinement and control of electromagnetic energy at subwavelength scales. Rapid progress in plasmonics has largely relied on advances in device…

We demonstrate that the interaction between two emitters can be controlled by means of the efficient excitation of surface plasmon modes in graphene. We consider graphene surface plasmons supported by either two-dimensional graphene sheets…

The properties of surface plasmons localized at the interface between graphene and kerr-type nonlinear medium in three dimensions are investigated. Compared with surface plasmons at the surface of metal, with the inevitable nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Lei Wang , Wei Cai , Xinzheng Zhang , F. J. Garcia de Abajo , Jingjun Xu

Graphene has emerged as a promising platform to bring nonlinear quantum optics to the nanoscale, where a large intrinsic optical nonlinearity enables long-lived and actively tunable plasmon polaritons to strongly interact. Here we…

We propose a 2D graphene structure containing atomic ensemble as a platform for implementing nanoscale enhanced coherent interactions of plasmonic fields with resonant atomic systems. We determine the graphene surface plasmon modes, and the…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-17 Ali A. Kamli , Sergey A. Moiseev

Surface plasmon, with its unique capability to concentrate light into sub-wavelength volume, has enabled great advances in photon science, ranging from nano-antenna and single-molecule Raman scattering to plasmonic waveguide and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jonghwan Kim , Hyungmok Son , David J. Cho , Baisong Geng , Will Regan , Sufei Shi , Kwanpyo Kim , Alex Zettl , Yuen-Ron Shen , Feng Wang

Plasmonic excitations such as surface-plasmon-polaritons (SPPs) and graphene-plasmons (GPs), carry large momenta and are thus able to confine electromagnetic fields to small dimensions. This property makes them ideal platforms for…

Spatial separation of electrons and holes in graphene gives rise to existence of plasmon waves confined to the boundary region. Theory of such guided plasmon modes within hydrodynamics of electron-hole liquid is developed. For plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-19 E. G. Mishchenko , A. V. Shytov , P. G. Silvestrov

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

The physics of electrons, photons, and their plasmonic interactions changes greatly when one or more dimensions are reduced down to the nanometer scale. For example, graphene shows unique electrical, optical, and plasmonic properties, which…