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A full (2$\pi$) phase modulation is critical for efficient wavefront manipulation. In this article, a metasurface based on graphene long/short-strip resonators is used to implement a dynamic 2$\pi$ phase modulation by applying different…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-22 Liming Liu , Yair Zarate , Haroldo T. Hattori

We demonstrate efficient terahertz (THz) modulation by coupling graphene strongly with a broadband THz metasurface device. This THz metasurface, made of periodic gold slit arrays, shows near unity broadband transmission, which arises from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 S. -F. Shi , B. Zeng , H. -L. Han , X. Hong , H. -Z. Tsai , H. S. Jung , A. Zettl , M. F. Crommie , F. Wang

We investigate high-harmonic generation in graphene heterostructures consisting of metallic nanoribbons separated from a graphene sheet by either a few-nanometer layer of aluminum oxide or an atomic monolayer of hexagonal boron nitride. The…

Terahertz nonlinear optics is a viable method to interrogate collective phenomena in quantum materials spanning ferroelectrics, charge-density waves, and superconductivity. In superconductors this includes the Higgs amplitude and Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-19 Kelson Kaj , Kevin A. Cremin , Ian Hammock , Jacob Schalch , Dmitri N. Basov , Richard D. Averitt

It is evidenced by numerical calculations that optically pumped graphene is suitable for compensating inherent loss in terahertz (THz) metamaterials. In a first step, the complex conductivity of graphene under optical pumping is calculated…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Peter Weis , Juan Luis Garcia-Pomar , Marco Rahm

The higher order harmonic generation process in the nonperturbative regime at the interaction of coherent electromagnetic radiation with the AB-stacked bilayer graphene at high Fermi energies is considered. The applied coherent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-20 A. G. Ghazaryan , H. H. Matevosyan , Kh. V. Sedrakian

We demonstrate that the broadband nonlinear optical response of graphene can be resonantly enhanced by more than an order of magnitude through hybridization with a plasmonic metamaterial,while retaining an ultrafast nonlinear response time…

In this work, we present numerical results for the second and third order conductivities of the plain graphene and gapped graphene monolayers associated with the second and third harmonic generation, the optical rectification and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 G. B. Ventura , D. J. Passos , J. M. Viana Parente Lopes , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos

We develop a density matrix formalism in the length gauge to calculate the nonlinear response of intrinsic monolayer graphene at terahertz frequencies. Employing a tight-binding model, we find that the interplay of the interband and…

Optics · Physics 2014-12-17 Ibraheem Al-Naib , J. E. Sipe , Marc M. Dignam

A novel broadband technique to effectively launch plasmons along a single graphene layer at terahertz (THz) frequencies is proposed. To this end, the coupling of the electromagnetic wave from a readily available plasmonic waveguide…

Optics · Physics 2014-04-08 Mohammad Ali Khorrami , Samir El-Ghazaly

The optimization of laser resonators represents a crucial issue for the design of terahertz semiconductor lasers with high gain and low absorption loss. In this paper, we put forward and optimize the surface plasmonic metal waveguide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Alexander A. Dubinov , Andrey Bylinkin , Vladimir Ya. Aleshkin , Victor Ryzhii , Taiichi Otsuji , Dmitry Svintsov

When light is absorbed by a semiconductor, photoexcited charge carriers enhance the absorption of far-infrared radiation due to intraband transitions. We observe the opposite behavior in monolayer graphene, a zero-gap semiconductor with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 A. J. Frenzel , C. H. Lui , W. Fang , N. L. Nair , P. K. Herring , P. Jarillo-Herrero , J. Kong , N. Gedik

Two-dimensional materials constitute an exciting platform for nonlinear optics with large nonlinearities that are tunable by gating. Hence, gate-tunable harmonic generation and intensity-dependent refraction have been observed in e.g.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 F. Hipolito , Darko Dimitrovski , T. G. Pedersen

The extraordinary electronic properties of graphene, such as its continuously gate-variable ambipolar field effect and the resulting steep change in resistivity, provided the main thrusts for the rapid advance of graphene electronics. The…

Improving the conversion efficiency is critical for advancing nonlinear photonic devices, enabling applications in ultrafast optics, quantum light sources, and high-resolution imaging. Herein, we present a bilayer waveguide integrated with…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-21 Xin Huang , Qi Lin , Sheng-Xuan Xia , Xiang Zhai , Gui-Dong Liu

While the Dirac band structure of graphene has established it as a leading platform for ultrafast optoelectronics, its non-perturbative nonlinear response under intense excitation remains poorly understood. Here, we report ultrafast…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-27 Xiaolong Lv , Yu Zhang , Yuxuan Wei , Chuanshan Tian

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

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 observe optical third harmonic generation from graphene and few-layer graphite flakes produced by exfoliation. The emission scales with the cube of the intensity of the incident near-infrared femtosecond pulses and has a wavelength that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-20 Nardeep Kumar , Jatinder Kumar , Chris Gerstenkorn , Rui Wang , Hsin-Ying Chiu , Arthur L. Smirl , Hui Zhao

Two graphene-based T-shaped multifunctional components for THz and Far-Infrared regions are proposed and analyzed. The first component can serve as a divider, a switch and a dynamically controllable filter. This T-junction presents a…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-24 Victor Dmitriev , Geraldo Melo , Wagner Castro