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TY - JOUR
T1 - Broadband, electrically tuneable, third harmonic generation in graphene
AU - Soavi, Giancarlo
AU - Wang, Gang
AU - Rostami, Habib
AU - Purdie, David G.
AU - De Fazio, Domenico
AU - Ma, Teng
AU - Luo, Birong
AU - Wang, Junjia
AU - Ott, Anna K.
AU - Yoon, Duhee
AU - Bourelle, Sean A.
AU - Muench, Jakob E.
AU - Goykhman, Ilya
AU - Dal Conte, Stefano
AU - Celebrano, Michele
AU - Tomadin, Andrea
AU - Polini, Marco
AU - Cerullo, Giulio
AU - Ferrari, Andrea C.
PY - 2018/5/21
Y1 - 2018/5/21
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1038/s41565-018-0145-8
DO - 10.1038/s41565-018-0145-8
M3 - Journal article
VL - 13
SP - 583
EP - 589
JO - Nature Nanotechnology
JF - Nature Nanotechnology
SN - 1748-3387
ER -