Giant optical nonlinearity of graphene in a magnetic field Conference Paper

abstract

• We show that graphene in a magnetic field possesses by far the highest third-order optical nonlinearity among all known materials. The giant nonlinearity originates from unique electronic properties and selection rules for transitions between Landau levels near the Dirac point. As a result, even one monolayer of graphene gives rise to appreciable nonlinear frequency conversion efficiency for incident infrared radiation. We present quantum-mechanical density-matrix formalism for calculating the nonlinear optical response of graphene in the magnetic field, valid for arbitrarily strong magnetic and optical fields. 2011 Optical Society of America.

name of conference

• Nonlinear Frequency Generation and Conversion: Materials, Devices, and Applications XII

authors

• Belyanin, Alexey

published proceedings

• Proceedings of SPIE

author list (cited authors)

• Yao, X., & Belyanin, A.

citation count

• 12

complete list of authors

• Yao, Xianghan||Belyanin, Alexey

publication date

• February 2013

publisher

• SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics  Publisher

published in

• Proceedings of SPIE  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1117/12.2004434

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 9781557529435

URI

• https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/181554

start page

• 860412-860412-11

volume

• 8604