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Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are traditionally excited by plane waves within the Rayleigh range of a focused transverse magnetic (TM) Gaussian beam. Here, we investigate and confirm the coupling between SPPs and two-dimensional…

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

Graphene's optical properties in the infrared and terahertz can be tailored and enhanced by patterning graphene into periodic metamaterials with sub-wavelength feature sizes. Here we demonstrate polarization sensitive and gate tunable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-05 Marcus Freitag , Tony Low , Wenjuan Zhu , Hugen Yan , Fengnian Xia , Phaedon Avouris

We study the interaction of electromagnetic (EM) radiation with single-layer graphene and a stack of parallel graphene sheets at arbitrary angles of incidence. It is found that the behavior is qualitatively different for transverse magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-31 Yuliy V. Bludov , Nuno M. R. Peres , Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy

Graphene is an interesting debated topic between scientists because of its unique properties such as tunable conductivity. Graphene conductivity can be varied by either electrostatic or magnetostatic gating or via chemical doping, which…

We study plasmonic resonances in electrostatically gated graphene nanoribbons on silicon dioxide substrates. Absorption spectra are measured in the mid-far infrared and reveal multiple peaks, with width-dependent resonant frequencies. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Isaac. J. Luxmoore , Choon How Gan , Peter Q. Liu , Federico Valmorra , Penglei Li , Jerome Faist , Geoffrey R. Nash

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

We analyze the surface plasmons (SPs) propagating along the optically pumped single-graphene layer (SGL) and multiple-graphene layer (MGL) structures. It is shown that at sufficiently strong optical pumping when the real part of dynamic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-02 A. ~A. ~Dubinov , V. ~Ya. ~Aleshkin , V. ~Mitin , T. ~Otsuji , V. ~Ryzhii

In this paper a surface plasmon polariton laser (spaser), which generates surface plasmons in graphene nanoflake, is considered. The peculiarities of spaser, such as strong material dispersion, require revision of basic laser equations. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-10 Yu. E. Lozovik , I. A. Nechepurenko , A. V. Dorofeenko , S. P. Merkulova

We investigate the optical properties of layered structures with graphene at the interface for arbitrary linear polarization at finite temperature including full retardation by working in the Weyl gauge. As a special case, we obtain the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-23 T. Stauber , G. Gómez-Santos

Polaritons can provide strong optical field enhancement allowing to boost light-matter interaction. Here, we experimentally observe enhancement of mid-infrared second-harmonic generation (SHG) using grating-coupled surface phonon polaritons…

Plasma frequency is the spectral boundary for low-loss propagation and evanescent decay of surface plasmon polariton (SPP) waves, which corresponds to a high cut-off phenomenon and is typically utilized for identifying SPPs. At terahertz…

The micro-Raman scattering response of a graphene-like location on the surface of bulk natural graphite is investigated both at $T=\unit{4.2}{K}$ and at room temperature in magnetic fields up to 29 T. Two different polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-03 M. Kuhne , C. Faugeras , P. Kossacki , A. A. L. Nicolet , M. Orlita , Yu. I. Latyshev , M. Potemski

The use of graphene for antennas and other electromagnetic passives could bring significant benefit such as extreme miniaturization, monolithic integration with graphene RF nanoelectronics, efficient dynamic tuning, and even transparency…

Optics · Physics 2012-10-15 Julien Perruisseau-Carrier

We analyze theoretically the propagation of surface plasmon polaritons about a metallic corner with a finite bend radius, using a one-dimensional model analogous to the scattering from a finite-depth potential well. We obtain expressions…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Keisuke Hasegawa , Jens U. Noeckel , Miriam Deutsch

The phase picked up by a graphene plasmon upon scattering by an abrupt edge is commonly assumed to be $-\pi$. Here, it is demonstrated that for high plasmon momenta this reflection phase is $\approx -3\pi/4$, virtually independent on either…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Yu. Nikitin , T. Low , L. Martin-Moreno

The two-dimensionality of graphene and other layered materials can be exploited to simplify the theoretical description of their plasmonic and polaritonic modes. We present an analytical theory that allows us to simulate these excitations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Renwen Yu , Joel D. Cox , J. R. M. Saavedra , F. Javier García de Abajo

Surface plasmon-polaritons in a multilayer structure consisting of a metallic film and one or more layers of nanocrystal (NC) quantum dots (QDs) are studied. It is shown that there is resonance coupling between the plasmon-polaritons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-14 Yu. V. Bludov , M. I. Vasilevskiy

We propose a graphene hyperlens for the terahertz (THz) range. We employ and numerically examine a structured graphene-dielectric multilayered stack that is an analogue of a metallic wire medium. As an example of the graphene hyperlens in…

Optics · Physics 2012-10-08 Andrei Andryieuski , Andrei V. Lavrinenko , Dmitry N. Chigrin

Periodic structures with subwavelength features are instrumental in the versatile and effective control of electromagnetic waves from radio frequencies up to optics. In this paper, we theoretically evaluate the potential applications and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-04 Arya Fallahi , Julien Perruisseau-Carrier