Title :
Terahertz bandwidth optical nonlinearity of graphene metamaterial
Author :
Nikolaenko, A.E. ; Atmatzakis, E. ; Papasimakis, N. ; Luo, Zhengqian ; Shen, Z.X. ; Boden, Stuart A. ; Ashburn, Peter ; Zheludev, Nikolay I.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Abstract :
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.
Keywords :
graphene; infrared spectra; metamaterials; optical switches; plasmonics; terahertz wave spectra; C; THz-bandwidth optical switching; hybridized graphene metamaterial; near-infrared wavelengths; nonlinear optical properties; plasmonic metamaterial; resonant enhancement; terahertz bandwidth optical nonlinearity; Metamaterials; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulse shaping; Optical signal processing; Plasmons; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
