• DocumentCode
    1689177
  • Title

    Terahertz bandwidth optical nonlinearity of graphene metamaterial

  • Author

    Nikolaenko, A.E. ; Atmatzakis, E. ; Papasimakis, N. ; Luo, Zhengqian ; Shen, Z.X. ; Boden, Stuart A. ; Ashburn, Peter ; Zheludev, Nikolay I.

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We provide the first observation that hybridizing graphene with plasmonic metamaterial results in order of magnitude resonant enhancement of its nonlinear optical properties and enables THz-bandwidth optical switching at near-infrared wavelengths.
  • Keywords
    graphene; infrared spectra; metamaterials; optical switches; plasmonics; terahertz wave spectra; C; THz-bandwidth optical switching; hybridized graphene metamaterial; near-infrared wavelengths; nonlinear optical properties; plasmonic metamaterial; resonant enhancement; terahertz bandwidth optical nonlinearity; Metamaterials; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulse shaping; Optical signal processing; Plasmons; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6327006