Optical diode action from axially asymmetric nonlinearity in an all-carbon solid-state device

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 5771-5776

  Anand, Benoy ^a   Podila, Ramakrishna ^b,c   Lingam, Kiran ^c   Krishnan, S R ^a,e   Siva Sankara Sai, S ^a   Philip, Reji ^d   Rao, Apparao M ^b,c  

^a SRI SATHYA SAI INSTITUTE OF HIGHER LEARNING   (India)

^b AMRL   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^e IBM INDIA RESEARCH LAB   (India)

Author keywords

graphene; nonlinear absorption; nonreciprocity; Optical diode

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL DIODES; EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATIONS; FABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES; NANOSTRUCTURED CARBONS; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; NONRECIPROCITY; OPTICAL DIODES; POLARIZATION INDEPENDENT;

GRAPHENE; SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

DIODES;

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBE; GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL; SILICON;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; OPTICS;

ABSORPTION; CARBON; GRAPHITE; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SILICON;

EID: 84890339681     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl403366d     Document Type: Article

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