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We experimentally demonstrate graphene-plasmon polariton excitation in a continuous graphene monolayer resting on a two-dimensional subwavelength silicon grating. The subwavelength silicon grating is fabricated by a nanosphere lithography…

Nonlinear light-matter interactions are typically enhanced by increasing the local field and its interaction time with matter. Conventional methods to achieve these goals are based on resonances or slow-light effects. However, these methods…

Excitation of surface plasmons supported by doped graphene sheets at terahertz frequencies is investigated numerically. To alleviate the momentum mismatch between the highly-confined plasmon modes and the incident radiation, it is proposed…

Optics · Physics 2013-03-05 Choon How Gan

We investigate the excitation of quantum plasmonic states of light in graphene using end-fire and prism coupling. In order to model the excitation process quantum mechanically we quantize the transverse-electric and transverse-magnetic…

We study electromagnetic scattering and subsequent plasmonic excitations in periodic grids of graphene ribbons. To address this problem, we develop an analytical method to describe the plasmon-assisted absorption of electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 P. A. D. Gonçalves , E. J. C. Dias , Yu. V. Bludov , N. M. R. Peres

Surface plasmons in graphene provide a compelling strategy for advanced photonic technologies thanks to their tight confinement, fast response and tunability. Recent advances in the field of all optical generation of graphene plasmons in…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-08 Y. Li , N. An , Z. Lu , Y. Wang , B. Chang , T. Tan , X. Guo , X. Xu , J. He , H. Xia , Z. Wu , Y. Su , Y. Liu , Y. Rao , G. Soavi , B. Yao

We demonstrate that graphene placed on top of structured substrates offers a novel approach for trapping and guiding surface plasmons. A monolayer graphene with a spatially varying curvature exhibits an effective trapping potential for…

Graphene plasmons are able to become the fundermental of novel conceptual photonic devices, resulting from their unique characteristics containing excitation at room temperature and tunable spectral selectivity in different frequencies. The…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-27 Junxiong Guo , Shangdong Li , Jianbo Chen , Ji Cai , Xin Gou , Shicai Wang , Jinghua Ye , Yu Liu , Lin Lin

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

We perform a comprehensive analysis of the spectrum of graphene plasmons which arise when a pair of sheets are confined between conducting materials. The associated enhanced local fields may be employed in the manipulation of light on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 Godfrey Gumbs , Dipendra Dahal , Antonios Balassis

Graphene plasmons are of remarkable features that make graphene plasmon elements promising for applications to integrated photonic devices. The fabrication of graphene plasmon components and control over plasmon propagating are of…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-15 Weiwei Luo , Wei Cai , Wei Wu , Yinxiao Xiang , Mengxin Ren , Xinzheng Zhang , Jingjun Xu

Graphene plasmons promise exciting nanophotonic and optoelectronic applications. Owing to their extremely short wavelengths, however, the efficient coupling of photons to graphene plasmons - critical for the development of future devices -…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-10 A. Y. Nikitin , P. Alonso-Gonzalez , R. Hillenbrand

Directional excitation of guidance modes is central to many applications ranging from light harvesting, optical information processing to quantum optical technology. Of paramount interest, especially, the active control of near-field…

Gapless spectrum of graphene allows easy spatial separation of electrons and holes with an external in-plane electric field. Guided collective plasmon modes can propagate along the separation line, whose amplitude decays with the distance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-23 N. M. Hassan , V. V. Mkhitaryan , E. G. Mishchenko

Graphene plasmons have recently attracted a great deal of attention because of their tunability, long lifetime, and high degree of field confinement in the vertical direction. Nearby metal gates have been shown to modify the graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Alessandro Principi , Erik van Loon , Marco Polini , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

Here, we investigate the nonreciprocal propagation and amplification of surface plasmons in drift-current biased graphene, using both Galilean and relativistic-type Doppler shift transformations of the graphene's conductivity. Consistent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-02 Tiago A. Morgado , Mário G. Silveirinha

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

The combination of plasmonic nanoparticles and graphene enhances the responsivity and spectral selectivity of graphene-based photodetectors. However, the small area of the metal-graphene junction, where the induced electron-hole pairs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 T. J. Echtermeyer , S. Milana , U. Sassi , A. Eiden , M. Wu , E. Lidorikis , A. C. Ferrari

This work studies the optical binding of a dimer composed by dielectric particles close to a graphene sheet. Using a rigorous electromagnetic method, we calculated the optical force acting on each nanoparticle. In addition, we deduced…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-26 Hernán Ferrari , Carlos J. Zapata Rodríguez , Mauro Cuevas

Plasmons, which are collective charge oscillations, offer the potential to use optical signals in nano-scale electric circuits. Recently, plasmonics using graphene have attracted interest, particularly because of the tunable plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 N. Kumada , S. Tanabe , H. Hibino , H. Kamata , M. Hashisaka , K. Muraki , T. Fujisawa