Issue 55, 2016, Issue in Progress

Electrically tunable, plasmon resonance enhanced, terahertz third harmonic generation via graphene

Abstract

In this study, we demonstrate how field enhancement due to plasmonic resonances can noticeably improve the efficiency of third harmonic generation (THG) from graphene sheets on a grating substrate under normal illumination of terahertz (THz) waves. We explore how different parameters of graphene and the substrate can affect the strength of the resonance and, thus, the third harmonic (TH) level. Interestingly, we show that the gate voltage tunability of the linear and nonlinear conductivities of graphene and, thus, the resonant frequency of the structure, enable the achievement and control of the plasmonic resonance enhanced THG over the THz frequency band. Based on our finite difference time domain (FDTD) numerical simulations, we reveal that a more than 5 orders of magnitude improvement in the TH level would be achievable by placing high quality graphene samples on a grating substrate under resonant conditions instead of placing them on a flat substrate. We hope that these findings can pave the way for the development of a plethora of valuable applications in the THz frequency band, such as generating new frequencies, spectroscopy, and signal processing.

Graphical abstract: Electrically tunable, plasmon resonance enhanced, terahertz third harmonic generation via graphene

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
29 Mar 2016
Accepted
07 May 2016
First published
23 May 2016

RSC Adv., 2016,6, 50190-50200

Electrically tunable, plasmon resonance enhanced, terahertz third harmonic generation via graphene

H. Nasari and M. S. Abrishamian, RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 50190 DOI: 10.1039/C6RA08086C

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