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Graphene placed in a magnetic field possesses an extremely high mid/far-infrared optical nonlinearity originating from its unusual band structure and selection rules for the optical transitions near the Dirac point. Here we study the linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-26 Xianghan Yao , Alexey Belyanin

Graphene photonics has emerged as a promising platform for providing desirable optical functionality. However, graphene's monolayer-scale thickness fundamentally restricts the available light matter interaction, posing a critical design…

Optics · Physics 2017-05-11 PoHan Chang , Charles Lin , Amr S. Helmy

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

Here we theoretically show, by designing and manipulating spatially inhomogeneous, non-uniform conductivity patterns across a single flake of graphene, that this single-atom-layered material can serve as a "one-atom-thick" platform for…

Optics · Physics 2011-01-20 Ashkan Vakil , Nader Engheta

Metasurface has witnessed an urgent need for reconfigurable chiral manipulation recently, while the graphene-based devices attracted significant attention from researchers due to their inherent tunable properties. Here, an L-shaped…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-11 Qi Wang , Haotian Hao , Wei Xin

Active metasurfaces have recently emerged as compact, lightweight, and efficient platforms for dynamic control of electromagnetic fields and optical responses. However, the complexities associated with their post-fabrication tunability…

For future on-chip communication schemes, it is essential to integrate nanoscale materials with an ultrafast optoelectronic functionality into high-frequency circuits. The atomically thin graphene has been widely demonstrated to be suitable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Andreas Brenneis , Felix Schade , Simon Drieschner , Florian Heimbach , Helmut Karl , Jose A. Garrido , Alexander W. Holleitner

We propose and analyze the concept of the vertical hot-electron terahertz (THz) graphene-layer detectors (GLDs) based on the double-GL and multiple-GL structures with the barrier layers made of materials with a moderate conduction band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 V. Ryzhii , A. Satou , T. Otsuji , M. Ryzhii , V. Mitin , M. S. Shur

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…

Epitaxial graphene mesas and ribbons are investigated using terahertz (THz) nearfield microscopy to probe surface plasmon excitation and THz transmission properties on the sub-wavelength scale. The THz near-field images show variation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Oleg Mitrofanov , Wenlong Yu , Robert J. Thompson , Yuxuan Jiang , Igal Brener , Wei Pan , Claire Berger , Walter A. de Heer , Zhigang Jiang

In this paper, a new heterostructure based on the hybridization of graphene-LiF layers with a nonlinear material is introduced and studied. The numerical results are depicted and discussed in detail. A high value of FOM (FOM=24.5) at the…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-17 Mohammad Bagher Heydari , Ali Abdollahi , Sina Asgari

In this paper, we design and simulate a terahertz (THz) controllable active plasmonic waveguide structure based on a single graphene layer that is placed on a random silicon grating substrate. Optical gain in the proposed THz active…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-27 Abbas Ghasempour Ardakani , Peymaneh Rafieipour

We propose a graphene hyperlens for the terahertz (THz) range. We employ and numerically examine a structured graphene-dielectric multilayered stack that is an analogue of a metallic wire medium. As an example of the graphene hyperlens in…

Optics · Physics 2012-10-08 Andrei Andryieuski , Andrei V. Lavrinenko , Dmitry N. Chigrin

Perfect absorption of radiation in a graphene sheet may play a pivotal role in the realization of technologically relevant optoelectronic devices. In particular, perfect absorption of radiation in the terahertz (THz) spectral range would…

Optics · Physics 2014-11-25 Fangli Liu , Y. D. Chong , Shaffique Adam , Marco Polini

We propose a new type of optical transistor for a broadband amplification of THz radiation. It is made of a graphene--superconductor hybrid, where electrons and Cooper pairs couple by Coulomb forces. The transistor operates via the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Kristian Hauser A. Villegas , Fedor V. Kusmartsev , Y. Luo , Ivan G. Savenko

In this paper, we exploit the metagrating paradigm to achieve coherent control of absorption and reflection in a two-port device. Employing graphene ribbon as a tunable element allows us to, for the first time, realize a reconfigurable…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-11 Ensiye Ghorbanpour , Sahar Behroozinia , Ali Abdolali

Graphene is an ideal material for integrated nonlinear optics thanks to its strong light-matter interaction and large nonlinear optical susceptibility. Graphene has been used in optical modulators, saturable absorbers, nonlinear frequency…

Using a powerful homogenization technique, one- and two-dimensional graphene metasurfaces are homogenized both at the fundamental frequency (FF) and second harmonic (SH). In both cases, there is excellent agreement between the predictions…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-17 Qun Ren , J. W. You , N. C. Panoiu

Graphene is a 2D material with appealing electronic and optoelectronic properties. It is a zero-bandgap material with valence and conduction bands meeting in a single point (Dirac point) in the momentum space. Its conductivity can be…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-10 V. Sorianello , G. Contestabile , M. Romagnoli

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