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Placing graphene on uniaxial substrates may have interesting application potential for graphene-based photonic and optoelectronic devices. Here we analytically derive the dispersion relation for graphene plasmons on uniaxial substrates and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 I. Arrazola , R. Hillenbrand , A. Yu. Nikitin

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 present three complementary methods to study stationary nonlinear solutions in one-dimensional nonlinear metal-dielectric structures. Two of them use an approximate treatment of the Kerr type nonlinear term taking into account only the…

Optics · Physics 2014-02-19 Wiktor Walasik , Gilles Renversez , Yaroslav Kartashov

It has recently been demonstrated that difference frequency mixing (DFM) can generate surface plasmons in graphene [1]. Here, we present detailed calculations comparing the contributions to this effect from substrate and from graphene…

This paper is withdrawn by the authors. We theoretically examine graphene plasmon polaritons (GPP) supported by a sheet of graphene sandwiched between two dielectric media. The influence of the dielectric environment on GPP's is studied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-24 Thomas Christensen , Antti-Pekka Jauho , N. Asger Mortensen

A graphene sheet biased with a drift electric current offers a tantalizing opportunity to attain unidirectional, backscattering-immune, and subwavelength light propagation, as proposed in [T. A. Morgado, M. G. Silveirinha, ACS Photonics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Tiago A. Morgado , Mário G. Silveirinha

Recently, optical soliton propagation in an intrinsic nonlinear graphene monolayer configuration has been discovered. However, optical soliton behavior in a free-standing graphene monolayer with defects has not yet been studied. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 Frederick Ira Moxley , Tim Byrnes , Adarsh Radadia , Weizhong Dai

We investigate -- through simulations and analytical calculations -- the consequences of uniaxial lateral compression applied to the upper layer of few-layer graphene. The simulations of compressed graphene show that strains larger than 2.8…

We put forward new properties of lattice solitons in materials and geometries where both, the linear refractive index and the nonlinearity are spatially modulated. We show that the interplay between linear and out-of-phase nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Victor A. Vysloukh , Lluis Torner

In this paper, we predict the existence of low-frequency nonlocal plasmon excitations at the vacuum-surface interface of a superlattice of $N$ graphene layers interacting with a thick conducting substrate. This is different from graphite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , Jhao-Ying Wu , M. F. Lin , Paula Fekete

Graphene can support surface plasmons with higher confinement, lower propagation loss, and substantially more tunable response compared to usual metal-based plasmonic structures. Interestingly, plasmons in graphene can strongly couple with…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-03 Tianjing Guo , Christos Argyropoulos

In [Phys. Rev. Lett. vol. 119, p. 133901 (2017)] it was argued that two parallel graphene layers in the presence of electron drift support unstable plasmon modes. Here we show that the predicted plasmon instability is an artifact of errors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Dmitry Svintsov , Victor Ryzhii

Self-consistent field theory is used to obtain the non-local plasmon dispersion relation of monolayer graphene which is Coulomb-coupled to a thick conductor. We calculate numerically the undamped plasmon excitation spectrum for arbitrary…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-24 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , N. J. M. Horing

Using monolayer graphene as a model system for a purely two-dimensional (2D) electron gas, we show by energy electron loss spectroscopy, highly resolved both in energy and momentum, that there is a significant probability for the excitation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-17 H. Pfnür , T. Langer , J. Baringhaus , C. Tegenkamp

We derive the plasmon dispersion in doped double layer graphene (DLG), made of two parallel graphene mono-layers with carrier densities $n_1$ and $n_2$ respectively, and an inter-layer separation of $d$. The linear chiral gapless single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-29 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

We investigate through analytic calculations the surface plasmon dispersion relation for monolayer graphene sheets and a separated parallel pair of graphene monolayers. An approximate form for the dispersion relation for the monolayer case…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-21 Choon How Gan , Hong Son Chu , Er Ping Li

Electron diffraction, imaging, and energy loss provide evidence for unlayered graphene sheets in the core of certain interstellar graphite onions (from the meteorite Murchison) whose isotopes indicate formation in the atmosphere of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric Mandell , Nathaniel Hunton , P. Fraundorf

We study Dirac plasmons and their damping in spatially separated $N$-layer graphene structures at finite doping and temperatures. The plasmon spectrum consists of one optical excitation with a square-root dispersion and $N-1$ acoustical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-13 J. -J. Zhu , S. M. Badalyan , F. M. Peeters

We study experimentally the interaction of a soliton with a nonlinear lattice. We observe the formation of a novel type of composite soliton created by strong coupling of mutually incoherent periodic and localized beam components. By…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Dragomir Neshev , Yuri S. Kivshar , Hector Martin , Zhigang Chen

We investigate the surface plasmonic lattice solitons (PLSs) in semi-infinite graphene sheet arrays. The surface soliton is formed as the SPPs tunneling is inhibited by the graphene nonlinearity, and meanwhile the incident power should be…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-21 Zhouqing Wang , Bing Wang , Hua Long , Kai Wang , Peixiang Lu