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We study theoretically nonlinear propagation of light in a graphene monolayer. We show that the large intrinsic nonlinearity of graphene at optical frequencies enables the formation of quasi one-dimensional self-guided beams (spatial…

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Graphene plasmons are rapidly emerging as a viable tool for fast electrical manipulation of light. The prospects for applications to electro-optical modulation, optical sensing, quantum plasmonics, light harvesting, spectral photometry, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-20 F. Javier Garcia de Abajo

We investigate the propagation of surface waves along a spatially dispersive graphene sheet, including substrate effects. The proposed analysis derives the admittances of an equivalent circuit of graphene able to handle spatial dispersion,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-03 J. S. Gomez-Diaz , J. R. Mosig , J. Perruisseau-Carrier

We study nonlinear properties of multilayer metamaterials created by graphene sheets separated by dielectric layers. We demonstrate that such structures can support localized nonlinear modes described by the discrete nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-16 Yuliy V. Bludov , Daria A. Smirnova , Yuri S. Kivshar , Nuno M. R. Peres , Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy

We have developed an analytical formulation to calculate the plasmon dispersion relation for a two-dimensional layer which is encapsulated within a narrow spatial gap between two bulk half-space plasmas. This is based on a solution of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Godfrey Gumbs , Norman J. M. Horing , Andrii Iurov , Dipendra Dahal

An analytical method for diffraction of a plane electromagnetic wave at periodically-modulated graphene sheet is presented. Both interface corrugation and periodical change in the optical conductivity are considered. Explicit expressions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 T. M. Slipchenko , M. L. Nesterov , L. Martin-Moreno , A. Yu. Nikitin

The plane wave scattering and absorption by finite and infinite gratings of free-space standing infinitely long graphene strips are studied in the THz range. A novel numerical approach, based on graphene surface impedance, hyper-singular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-02 Olga V. Shapoval , Juan Sebastian Gomez-Diaz , Julien Perruisseau-Carrier , Juan R. Mosig , Alexander I. Nosich

The interaction of light with matter has triggered the interest of scientists for long time. The area of plasmonics emerges in this context through the interaction of light with valence electrons in metals. The random phase approximation in…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-07 Marios Mattheakis , Giorgos P. Tsironis , Efthimios Kaxiras

The paper studies oscillations of graphene plates under the hypothesis that deformations are much more than the thickness of plate. In this most realistic case the oscillations are described by the system of nonlinear partial differential…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-05-11 Yuriy Ostapov

We theoretically consider the effect of plasmon collective modes on the frequency-dependent conductivity of graphene in the presence of the random static potential of charged impurities. We develop an equation of motion approach suitable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 K. Kechedzhi , S. Das Sarma

An electromagnetic response of a single graphene layer to a uniform, arbitrarily strong electric field $E(t)$ is calculated by solving the kinetic Boltzmann equation within the relaxation-time approximation. The theory is valid at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 S. A. Mikhailov

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

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 this paper, we propose that both the quasi-transverse-magnetic (TM) and quasi-transverseelectric (TE) Airy plasmons can be supported in graphene-based waveguides. The solution of Airy plasmons is calculated analytically and the existence…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-21 Rujiang Li , Muhammad Imran , Xiao Lin , Hongsheng Chen

Surface plasmons in graphene may provide an attractive alternative to noble-metal plasmons due to their tighter confinement, peculiar dispersion, and longer propagation distance. We present theoretical studies of the nonlinear difference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Xianghan Yao , Mikhail Tokman , Alexey Belyanin

It is shown that the massless energy spectrum of electrons and holes in graphene leads to the strongly non-linear electromagnetic response of this system. We predict that the graphene layer, irradiated by electromagnetic waves, emits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-24 S. A. Mikhailov

We demonstrate that the effective third-order nonlinear susceptibility of a graphene sheet can be enhanced by more than two orders of magnitude by patterning it into a graphene metasurface. In addition, in order to gain deeper physical…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-07 Jian Wei You , Nicolae C. Panoiu

Plasmon oscillations have been intensively studied for more than forty years in conventional two-dimensional electron gas systems in order to find new alternatives to the vacuum devices based on the Smith-Purcell effect in the far-infrared…

Electrostatic gating and optical pumping schemes enable efficient time modulation of graphene's free carrier density, or Drude weight. We develop a theory for plasmon propagation in graphene under temporal modulation. When the modulation is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Josh Wilson , Fadil Santosa , Misun Min , Tony Low