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We have fabricated a centimeter-size single-layer graphene device, with a gate electrode, which can modulate the transmission of terahertz and infrared waves. Using time-domain terahertz spectroscopy and Fourier-transform infrared…

Semi-metals might offer a stronger interaction and a better confinement for terahertz wave than semiconductors, while preserve tunability. Particularly, graphene-based materials are envisioned as terahertz modulators, filters and…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-21 Tong Ye , Sheng Meng , Jin Zhang , Yiwen E , Yuping Yang , Wuming Liu , Yan Yin , Li Wang

In this letter, we show that asymmetric transmission of circularly polarized waves through a nanostructured planar chiral graphene film can be observed in terahertz range. The asymmetric transmission effect of monatomic layer graphene…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-24 Junyang Zhao , Jianfa Zhang , Zhihong Zhu , Xiaodong Yuan , Shiqiao Qin

Engineered micro- or nano-structures based on nonlinear optical materials offer versatile opportunities for optoelectronic applications. While extensive efforts have been devoted to design tailored microcavities to promote and increase the…

Graphene possesses a unique combination of physical properties including high carrier mobility and high current density it can sustain. In contrast to bulk metals, graphene does not completely screen the external electrostatic field. In…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Alexander Khitun

Field-effect transistors coupled to integrated antennas (TeraFETs) are photodetectors being actively developed for the THz frequency range ($\sim$ 100 GHz - 10 THz). Among them, Graphene TeraFETs (G-TeraFETs) have demonstrated distinctive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Florian Ludwig , Andrey Generalov , Jakob Holstein , Anton Murros , Klaara Viisanen , Mika Prunnila , Hartmut G. Roskos

Precise control and nanoscale confinement of terahertz (THz) fields are essential requirements for emerging applications in photonics, quantum technologies, wireless communications, and sensing. Here, we demonstrate a polaritonic cavity…

We compute the terahertz third-order nonlinear conductance of metallic armchair graphene nanoribbons using time-dependent perturbation theory. Significant enhancement of the intrinsic third-order conductance over the result for instrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-20 Yichao Wang , David R. Andersen

The linear electronic dispersion relation of graphene endows the atomically thin carbon layer with a large intrinsic optical nonlinearity, with regard to both parametric and photothermal processes. While plasmons in graphene nanostructures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Line Jelver , Joel D. Cox

We report strong third-harmonic generation (THG) in monolayer graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and transferred to an amorphous silica (glass) substrate; the photon energy is in three-photon resonance with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-12 Sung-Young Hong , Jerry I. Dadap , Nicholas Petrone , Po-Chun Yeh , James Hone , Richard M. Osgood

We propose and substantiate the concept of terahertz (THz) laser enabled by the resonant electron radiative transitions between graphene layers (GLs) in double-GL structures. We estimate the THz gain for TM-mode exhibiting very low Drude…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 V. Ryzhii , A. A. Dubinov , V. Ya. Aleshkin , M. Ryzhii , T. Otsuji

Nonlinear couplings between photons and electrons in new materials give rise to a wealth of interesting nonlinear phenomena. This includes frequency mixing, optical rectification or nonlinear current generation, which are of particular…

We report a highly efficient tunable THz reflector in graphene. By applying a small gate voltage (up to 3 V), the reflectance of graphene is modulated from a minimum of 0.79% to a maximum of 33.4% using graphene/ionic liquid structures at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Yang Wu , Xuepeng Qiu , Hongwei Liu , Jingbo Liu , Yuanfu Chen , Lin Ke , Hyunsoo Yang

Optical responses of graphene in the presence of intense circularly and linearly polarized terahertz fields are investigated based on the Floquet theory. We examine the energy spectrum and density of states. It is found that gaps open in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-29 Y. Zhou , M. W. Wu

We develop a rigorous quantum-mechanical theory of the nonlinear optical process of difference frequency generation of surface plasmon-polaritons in Landau-quantized graphene. Although forbidden in the electric-dipole approximation, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 A. Ryan Kutayiah , Mikhail Tokman , Yongrui Wang , Alexey Belyanin

In this work, we utilize thin dielectric meta-atoms placed on a silver substrate to efficiently enhance and manipulate the third harmonic generation. We theoretically and experimentally reveal that when the structural symmetry of the…

Intense efforts have been made in recent years to realize nonlinear optical interactions at the single-photon level. Much of this work has focused on achieving strong third-order nonlinearities, such as by using single atoms or other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-25 Marco T. Manzoni , Iván Silveiro , F. Javier García de Abajo , Darrick E. Chang

We propose a method for efficiently harnessing the quadratic optical response of two-dimensional graphene-like materials by theoretically investigating second harmonic generation from a current biased sheet placed within a planar active…

Optics · Physics 2014-09-24 Alessandro Ciattoni , Carlo Rizza

Successful phase-matching methods for Third Harmonics Generation (THG) include phase-matching in birefringent crystal and quasi-phase-matching (QPM) in crystal with periodically poled domains. However, these methods are not feasible in some…

Optics · Physics 2013-07-25 Tan Yizhou , Yang Yisheng , Liao Jiali , Zhang Ming

The temporal dynamics of charge carriers determines the speed with which electronics can be realized in condensed matter, and their direct manipulation with optical fields promises electronic processing at unprecedented petahertz…