• 文献标题:   Third-Order Optical Response of Metallic Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons to an Elliptically-Polarized Terahertz Excitation Field
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WANG YC, ANDERSEN DR
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, nanoribbon, nonlinear optic, terahertz
  • 出版物名称:   IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
  • ISSN:   1077-260X EI 1558-4542
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Iowa
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1109/JSTQE.2016.2641300
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

We present a theoretical description of the thirdorder response induced by an elliptically-polarized terahertz beam normally-incident on intrinsic and extrinsic metallic armchair graphene nanoribbons. Our results show that using a straightforward experimental setup, it should be possible to observe novel polarization-dependent nonlinearities at low excitation field strengths of the order of 104 V/m. At low temperatures the Kerr nonlinearities in extrinsic nanoribbons persist to significantly higher excitation frequencies than they do for linear polarizations, and at room temperatures, the third-harmonic nonlinearities are enhanced by 2-3 orders of magnitude. Finally, the Fermi-level and temperature dependence of the nonlinear response is characterized.