• 文献标题:   Frequency-tunable terahertz graphene laser enabled by pseudomagnetic fields in strain-engineered graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SUN H, QI ZP, KIM Y, LUO ML, YANG B, NAM D
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  • 出版物名称:   OPTICS EXPRESS
  • ISSN:   1094-4087
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  • 被引频次:   6
  • DOI:   10.1364/OE.405922
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Graphene-based optoelectronic devices have recently attracted much attention for the next-generation electronic-photonic integrated circuits. However, it remains elusive whether it is feasible to create graphene-based lasers at the chip scale, hindering the realization of such a disruptive technology. In this work, we theoretically propose that Landau-quantized graphene enabled by strain-induced pseudomagnetic field can become an excellent gain medium that supports lasing action without requiring an external magnetic field. Tight-binding theory is employed for calculating electronic states in highly strained graphene while analytical and numerical analyses based on many-particle Hamiltonian allow studying detailed microscopic mechanisms of zero-field graphene Landau level laser dynamics. Our proposed laser presents unique features including a convenient, wide-range tuning of output laser frequency enabled by changing the level of strain in graphene gain media. The chip-scale graphene laser may open new possibilities for graphene-based electronic-photonic integrated circuits. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement