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Nonlinear optical responses provide a powerful way to understand the microscopic interactions between laser fields and matter. They are critical for plenty of applications, such as in lasers, integrated photonic circuits, biosensing and…

We develop a rigorous quantum-mechanical theory of the nonlinear optical process of difference frequency generation of surface plasmon-polaritons in Landau-quantized graphene. Although forbidden in the electric-dipole approximation, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 A. Ryan Kutayiah , Mikhail Tokman , Yongrui Wang , Alexey Belyanin

Graphene may be a fascinating material but at this time there exists no experimental or theoretical evidence that it can improve performance of practical nonlinear optical devices.

Optics · Physics 2017-09-08 Jacob B Khurgin

The effect of nonlinear transmission in coupled optical waveguide arrays is theoretically investigated via numerical simulations on the corresponding model equations. The realistic experimental setup is suggested injecting the beam in a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Ramaz Khomeriki

We carry out an explicit calculation of the vacuum polarization tensor for an effective low-energy model of monolayer graphene in the presence of a weak magnetic field of intensity $B$ perpendicularly aligned to the membrane. By expanding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 David Valenzuela , Saúl Hernández-Ortiz , Marcelo Loewe , Alfredo Raya

We compute the magnetization of graphene in a magnetic field, taking into account for generality the possibility of a mass gap. We concentrate on the physical regime where quantum oscillations are not observed due to the effect of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-01 Sergey Slizovskiy , Joseph Betouras

Electrons in graphene behave like relativistic Dirac particles which can reduce velocity of light by two orders of magnitude in the form of plasmon-polaritons. Here we show how these properties lead to a peculiar nonlinear plasmon response…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-02 Marinko Jablan

Within the tight binding approximation, we study the dependence of the electronic band structure and of the optical conductivity of a graphene single layer on the modulus and direction of applied uniaxial strain. While the Dirac cone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-15 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

We theoretically study the nonlinear optical response of ABC trilayer graphene with inversion symmetry broken by the application of a displacement field perpendicular to the trilayer. We show that rhombohedral trilayer graphene exhibits a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Abigail Postlewaite , Arpit Raj , Swati Chaudhary , Gregory A. Fiete

The richness of optical and electronic properties of graphene attracts enormous interest. Graphene has high mobility and optical transparency, in addition to flexibility, robustness and environmental stability. So far, the main focus has…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 F. Bonaccorso , Z. Sun , T. Hasan , A. C. Ferrari

Graphene has recently been shown to be permeable to thermal protons, the nuclei of hydrogen atoms, which sparked interest in its use as a proton-conducting membrane in relevant technologies. However, the influence of light on proton…

Irradiation of the strong light on the material leads to numerous non-linear effects that are essential to understand the physics of excited states of the system and for optoelectronics. Here, we study the non-linear thermoelectric effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-05 Pankaj Bhalla

We numerically and experimentally investigate graphene-based optical absorbers that exploit guided mode resonances (GMRs) achieving perfect absorption over a bandwidth of few nanometers (over the visible and near-infrared ranges) with a…

Graphene has many unique properties that make it an ideal material for fundamental studies as well as for potential applications. Here we review the recent results on the Raman spectroscopy and imaging of graphene. Raman spectroscopy and…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-10-17 Zhen hua Ni , Ying ying Wang , Ting Yu , Ze xiang Shen

The optical properties of dielectric plates coated with gapped graphene are investigated on the basis of first principles of quantum electrodynamics. The reflection coefficients and reflectivities of graphene-coated plates are expressed in…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-27 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

A graphene layer on top of a dielectric can dramatically influence ability of the material to radiative heat transfer. This property of graphene is used to improve the performance and reduce costs of near-field thermophotovoltaic cells.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-16 V. B. Svetovoy , G. Palasantzas

Nonlinear optical properties and carrier relaxation dynamics in graphene, suspended in three different solvents, are investigated using femtosecond (80 fs pulses) Z-scan and degenerate pumpprobe spectroscopy at 790 nm. The results…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Sunil Kumar , M. Anija , N. Kamaraju , K. S. Vasu , K. S. Subrahmanyam , A. K. Sood , C. N. R. Rao

We calculate the static polarizability of multilayer graphene and study the effect of stacking arrangement, carrier density, and onsite energy difference on graphene screening properties. At low densities, the energy spectrum of multilayer…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-14 Hongki Min , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

Graphene has been considered as a promising material for opto-electronic devices, because of its tunable and wideband optical properties. In this work, we demonstrate electro-refractive phase modulation in graphene at wavelengths from 1530…

Electrical properties of multi-layer graphene are subject to variations due to random interlayer alignments. In this work we reported graphene interlayer conductance without special layer aligning. Ohmic contacts between two graphene layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-07 Yin Sun , Xintong Zhang , Longyan Wang , Lining Zhang , Salahuddin Raju , Mansun Chan