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Geometries for the coherent control of four-wave mixing in graphene multilayers

Geometries for the coherent control of four-wave mixing in graphene multilayers
Geometries for the coherent control of four-wave mixing in graphene multilayers
Deeply sub-wavelength two-dimensional films may exhibit extraordinarily strong nonlinear effects. Here we show that 2D films exhibit the remarkable property of a phase-controllable nonlinearity, i.e., the amplitude of the nonlinear polarisation wave in the medium can be controlled via the pump beam phase and determines whether a probe beam will "feel" or not the nonlinearity. This is in stark contrast to bulk nonlinearities where propagation in the medium averages out any such phase dependence. We perform a series of experiments in multilayer graphene that highlight some of the consequences of the optical nonlinearity phase-dependence, such as the coherent control of nonlinearly diffracted beams, single-pump-beam induced phase-conjugation and the demonstration of a nonlinear mirror characterised by negative reflection. The observed phase sensitivity is not specific to graphene but rather is solely a result of the dimensionality and is therefore expected in all 2D materials.
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Rao, Shraddha M., Lyons, Ashley, Roger, Thomas, Clerici, Matteo, Zheludev, Nikolay I. and Faccio, Daniele (2015) Geometries for the coherent control of four-wave mixing in graphene multilayers. Scientific Reports, 5 (15399), 1-8. (doi:10.1038/srep15399).

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Deeply sub-wavelength two-dimensional films may exhibit extraordinarily strong nonlinear effects. Here we show that 2D films exhibit the remarkable property of a phase-controllable nonlinearity, i.e., the amplitude of the nonlinear polarisation wave in the medium can be controlled via the pump beam phase and determines whether a probe beam will "feel" or not the nonlinearity. This is in stark contrast to bulk nonlinearities where propagation in the medium averages out any such phase dependence. We perform a series of experiments in multilayer graphene that highlight some of the consequences of the optical nonlinearity phase-dependence, such as the coherent control of nonlinearly diffracted beams, single-pump-beam induced phase-conjugation and the demonstration of a nonlinear mirror characterised by negative reflection. The observed phase sensitivity is not specific to graphene but rather is solely a result of the dimensionality and is therefore expected in all 2D materials.

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Accepted/In Press date: 16 September 2015
Published date: 21 October 2015
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 386181
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/386181
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ORCID for Nikolay I. Zheludev: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1013-6636

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Date deposited: 21 Jan 2016 10:00
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Author: Shraddha M. Rao
Author: Ashley Lyons
Author: Thomas Roger
Author: Matteo Clerici
Author: Nikolay I. Zheludev ORCID iD
Author: Daniele Faccio

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