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Here we present an all-optical plasmon coupling scheme, utilising the intrinsic nonlinear optical response of graphene. We demonstrate coupling of free-space, visible light pulses to the surface plasmons in a planar, un-patterned graphene…

We theoretically investigate under which conditions nonlocal plasmon response in monolayer graphene can be detected. To this purpose, we study optical scattering off graphene plasmon resonances coupled using a subwavelength dielectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Tobias Wenger , Giovanni Viola , Philippe Tassin , Mikael Fogelström , Jari Kinaret

Graphene is a unique platform for tunable opto-electronic applications thanks to its linear band dispersion, which allows electrical control of resonant light-matter interactions. Tuning the nonlinear optical response of graphene is…

Nonlinear optical processes rely on the intrinsically weak interactions between photons enabled by their coupling with matter. Unfortunately, many applications in nonlinear optics are severely hindered by the small response of conventional…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-15 Joel D. Cox , F. J. Garcia de Abajo

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

We present a semiclassical theory of linear and nonlinear optical response of graphene. The emphasis is placed on the nonlinear optical response of graphene from the standpoint of the underlying chiral symmetry. The Bloch quasiparticles in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Behrooz Semnani , Amir Hamed Majedi , Safieddin Safavi-Naeini

We present a theoretical framework for nonlinear optics of graphene and other 2D materials in layered structures. We derive a key equation to find the effective electric field and the sheet current density in the 2D material for given…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-27 J. L. Cheng , J. E. Sipe , N. Vermeulen , C. Guo

Nonlinear optical methods are becoming ubiquitous in many areas of modern photonics. They are, however, often limited to a certain range of input parameters, such as pulse energy and average power, since restrictions arise from, for…

The theory of optical effects in hydrogenated graphene (graphane) in terahertz and infrared range is developed, including the analysis of complex conductivity, reflection coefficient for graphane on a substrate and dispersion of surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 E. I. Preobrazhensky , I. V. Oladyshkin , M. D. Tokman

We develop a model for the description of nonlinear pulse propagation in multimode optical fibers with a parabolic refractive index profile. It consists in a 1+1D generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a periodic nonlinear…

Although massless Dirac fermions in graphene constitute a centrosymmetric medium for in-plane excitations, their second-order nonlinear optical response is nonzero if the effects of spatial dispersion are taken into account. Here we present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Yongrui Wang , Mikhail Tokman , Alexey Belyanin

The report presents the results of using the nonperturbative kinetic approach to describe the excitation of plasma oscillations in a graphene monolayer. As examples the constant electric field as well as an electric field of short…

We theoretically describe the quasi one-dimensional transverse spreading of a light pulse propagating in a defocusing nonlinear optical material in the presence of a uniform background light intensity. For short propagation distances the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-03-04 M. Isoard , A. M. Kamchatnov , N. Pavloff

Diffusion and drift of a graphene flake on a graphite surface are analyzed. A potential energy relief of the graphene flake is computed using ab initio and empirical calculations. Based on the analysis of this relief, different mechanisms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Irina V. Lebedeva , Andrey A. Knizhnik , Andrey M. Popov , Olga V. Ershova , Yurii E. Lozovik , Boris V. Potapkin

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 analyze the optical pump-probe reflection and transmission coefficients when the photoinduced response depends nonlinearly on the incident pump intensity. Under these conditions, we expect the photoconductivity depth profile to change…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-30 Leya Lopez , Derek G. Sahota , J. Steven Dodge

Saturable absorption is a non-perturbative nonlinear optical phenomenon that plays a pivotal role in the generation of ultrafast light pulses. Here we show that this effect emerges in graphene at unprecedentedly low light intensities, thus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 A. Marini , J. D. Cox , F. J. Garcia de Abajo

Recently, a perturbative model of non-linear fiber propagation in uncompensated optical transmission systems has been proposed, called GN-model [1]. Here, an extended and more detailed version of the GN-model derivation [1] is reported,…

An analytical method for diffraction of a plane electromagnetic wave at periodically-modulated graphene sheet is presented. Both interface corrugation and periodical change in the optical conductivity are considered. Explicit expressions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 T. M. Slipchenko , M. L. Nesterov , L. Martin-Moreno , A. Yu. Nikitin

The effective mass approximation is analysed in a nonperturbative kinetic theory approach to strong field excitations in graphene [1,2]. This problem is highly actual for the investigation of quantum radiation from graphene [3], where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 D. B. Blaschke , V. V. Dmitriev , N. T. Gevorgyan , B. Mahato , A. D. Panferov , S. A. Smolyansky , V. A. Tseryupa