Terahertz bandwidth optical nonlinearity of graphene metamaterial

• Main Authors: Atmatzakis, Evangelos, Papasimakis, Nikitas, Luo, Zhiqiang, Shen, Zexiang, Ashburn, P., Nikolaenko, Andrey E., Zheludev, Nikolay I., Boden, Stuart A.
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97304; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/13088; http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6327006
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We provide the first observation that hybridizing graphene with plasmonic metamaterial results in order of magnitude resonant enhancement of its nonlinear optical properties and enables THz-bandwidth optical switching at near-infrared wavelengths.