Nonlinear optics of graphene in a strong magnetic field. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Graphene placed in a magnetic field possesses an extremely high mid/far-infrared optical nonlinearity originating from its unusual band structure and selection rules for the optical transitions near the Dirac point. Here, we study the linear and nonlinear optical response of graphene in strong magnetic and optical fields using a quantum-mechanical density-matrix formalism. We calculate the power of the coherent terahertz radiation generated as a result of the four-wave mixing in graphene. We show that even one monolayer of graphene gives rise to an appreciable nonlinear frequency conversion efficiency and Raman gain for modest intensities of the incident infrared radiation.

published proceedings

  • J Phys Condens Matter

altmetric score

  • 10.364

author list (cited authors)

  • Yao, X., & Belyanin, A.

citation count

  • 71

complete list of authors

  • Yao, Xianghan||Belyanin, Alexey

publication date

  • February 2013