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Broadband, electrically tuneable, third harmonic generation in graphene

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  • Giancarlo Soavi
  • Gang Wang
  • Habib Rostami
  • David G. Purdie
  • Domenico De Fazio
  • Teng Ma
  • Birong Luo
  • Junjia Wang
  • Anna K. Ott
  • Duhee Yoon
  • Sean A. Bourelle
  • Jakob E. Muench
  • Ilya Goykhman
  • Stefano Dal Conte
  • Michele Celebrano
  • Andrea Tomadin
  • Marco Polini
  • Giulio Cerullo
  • Andrea C. Ferrari
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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>21/05/2018
<mark>Journal</mark>Nature Nanotechnology
Volume13
Number of pages7
Pages (from-to)583-589
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Optical harmonic generation occurs when high intensity light (>1010 W m–2) interacts with a nonlinear material. Electrical control of the nonlinear optical response enables applications such as gate-tunable switches and frequency converters. Graphene displays exceptionally strong light–matter interaction and electrically and broadband tunable third-order nonlinear susceptibility. Here, we show that the third-harmonic generation efficiency in graphene can be increased by almost two orders of magnitude by controlling the Fermi energy and the incident photon energy. This enhancement is due to logarithmic resonances in the imaginary part of the nonlinear conductivity arising from resonant multiphoton transitions. Thanks to the linear dispersion of the massless Dirac fermions, gate controllable third-harmonic enhancement can be achieved over an ultrabroad bandwidth, paving the way for electrically tunable broadband frequency converters for applications in optical communications and signal processing.