Ultrafast all-optical graphene modulator

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 955-959

  Li, Wei ^a   Chen, Bigeng ^a   Meng, Chao ^a   Fang, Wei ^a   Xiao, Yao ^a   Li, Xiyuan ^a   Hu, Zhifang ^a   Xu, Yingxin ^a   Tong, Limin ^a   Wang, Hongqing ^b   Liu, Weitao ^b   Bao, Jiming ^c   Shen, Y Ron ^b,d  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Graphene; microfiber; optical modulation; ultrafast

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894114520     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl404356t     Document Type: Article

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