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Electrically tunable graphene plasmons are anticipated to enable strong light-matter interactions with resonant quantum emitters. However, plasmon resonances in graphene are typically limited to infrared frequencies, below those of optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Joel D. Cox , F. Javier García de Abajo

Graphene and graphene-based materials exhibit exceptional optical and electrical properties with great promise for novel applications in light detection. However, several challenges prevent the full exploitation of these properties in…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-20 Adolfo De Sanctis , Jake D. Mehew , Monica F. Craciun , Saverio Russo

Nonlinear optical phenomena play a critical role in understanding microscopic light-matter interactions and have far-reaching applications across various fields, such as biosensing, quantum information, optical switching, and all-optical…

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…

It is commonly believed that weak light-matter interactions in low-mobility graphene dramatically limits tunability of graphene-based optoelectronic devices, such as tunable absorbers or switches. In this paper, we develop and use a simple…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-11 Xuchen Wang , Sergei A. Tretyakov

In this work, we experimentally study the optical kerr nonlinearities of graphene/Si hybrid waveguides with enhanced self-phase modulation. In the case of CMOS compatible materials for nonlinear optical signal processing, Si and silicon…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Qi Feng , Hui Cong , Bin Zhang , Wenqi Wei , Yueyin Liang , Shaobo Fang , Ting Wang , Jianjun Zhang

Electron devices based on graphene have lately received a considerable interest; in fact, they could represent the ultimate miniaturization, since the active area is only one atom tick. However, the gapless dispersion relation of graphene…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Giovanni Nastasi , Vittorio Romano

Graphene, a 2-dimensional monolayer form of sp2 hybridizated carbon atoms, is attracting increasing attention due to its unique and superior physicochemical properties. Covalently functionalized graphene layers, with their modifiable…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-11 Karolina Z. Milowska , Jacek A. Majewski

Graphene-based nanostructured systems and van-der-Waals heterostructures comprise a material class of growing technological and scientific importance. Joining materials with vastly different properties, polymer-graphene heterosystems…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-26 Max Gulde , Anastassia N. Rissanou , Vagelis Harmandaris , Marcus Müller , Sascha Schäfer , Claus Ropers

The optical conductance of monolayer graphene is defined solely by the fine structure constant. The absorbance has been predicted to be independent of frequency. In principle, the interband optical absorption in zero-gap graphene could be…

Graphene is a two-dimensional material with strongly nonlinear electrodynamics and optical properties. We present some of our recent theoretical results on the quantum and non-perturbative quasi-classical theories of nonlinear effects in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 S. A. Mikhailov , N. A. Savostianova

The linear electrodynamic properties of graphene -- the frequency-dependent conductivity, the transmission spectra and collective excitations -- are briefly outlined. The non-linear frequency multiplication effects in graphene are studied,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-27 S. A. Mikhailov

Graphene's exceptional nonlinear optical properties combined with resonant photonic structures offer a promising pathway for efficient nonlinear applications at terahertz (THz) frequencies. In this work, we propose and demonstrate a…

Second-order nonlinear optical response allows to detect different properties of the system associated with the inversion symmetry breaking. Here, we use a second harmonic generation effect to investigate the alignment of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-03 E. A. Stepanov , S. V. Semin , C. R. Woods , M. Vandelli , A. V. Kimel , K. S. Novoselov , M. I. Katsnelson

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

A theory of the nonlinear plasma waves in graphene is developed in the nonperturbative regime. The influence of strong electric fields on the position and linewidth of plasma resonances in the far-infrared transmission experiments, as well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 S. A. Mikhailov

Graphene, the first truly two-dimensional (one atom thin) material, possesses strongly nonlinear electrodynamic and optical properties. At low (microwave, terahertz) frequencies this results from the unique electronic property of graphene -…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 Sergey Mikhailov

We present a general formulation to calculate the dynamic optical conductivity, beyond the linear response regime, of any electronic system whose quasiparticle dispersion is described by a two band model. Our phenomenological model is based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Ashutosh Singh , Tuhina Satpati , Kirill I. Bolotin , Saikat Ghosh , Amit Agarwal

Graphene is conceivably the most nonlinear optoelectronic material. Its nonlinear optical coefficients in the terahertz (THz) frequency range surpass those of other materials by many orders of magnitude. This, in particular, allows one to…

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