Quantum-enhanced tunable second-order optical nonlinearity in bilayer graphene

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2032-2036

  Wu, Sanfeng ^a   Mao, Li ^b   Jones, Aaron M ^a   Yao, Wang ^c   Zhang, Chuanwei ^a   Xu, Xiaodong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bilayer grapheme; double resonance enhancement; perturbation theory; polarization; second harmonic generation; tenability

Indexed keywords

BI-LAYER; COHERENT MIXING; DOUBLE RESONANCE; ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE; ELECTRONIC BAND GAPS; ELECTRONIC SPECTRUM; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY; IN-PLANE ELECTRIC FIELDS; MIDINFRARED; NONLINEAR CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR MATERIALS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; OPTICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL NONLINEAR; OPTICAL TRANSPARENCY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PERTURBATION THEORY; ROBUST SYSTEMS; SECOND ORDER OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; SECOND ORDERS; SECOND-ORDER NONLINEAR SUSCEPTIBILITY; TENABILITY; TUNABILITIES; TUNABLE WAVELENGTH; ULTRAFAST LASER SYSTEMS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTRON MOBILITY; GRAPHENE; HARMONIC GENERATION; POLARIZATION; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 84859705852     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl300084j     Document Type: Article

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