Tuesday, May 22, 2012

1205.4333 (Tingyi Gu et al.)

Regenerative oscillation and four-wave mixing in graphene
optoelectronics
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Tingyi Gu, Nick Petrone, Xiaodong Yang, James F. McMillian, Arend van der Zander, Min-bing Yu, Guo-Qiang Lo, Dim-Lee Kwong, James Hone, Chee-Wei Wong
The unique linear and massless band structure of graphene, in a purely two-dimensional Dirac fermionic structure, have led to intense research spanning from condensed matter physics to nanoscale device applications covering the electrical, thermal, mechanical and optical domains. Here we report three consecutive first-observations in graphene-silicon hybrid optoelectronic devices: (1) ultralow power resonant optical bistability; (2) self-induced regenerative oscillations; and (3) coherent four-wave mixing, all at a few femtojoule cavity recirculating energies. These observations, in comparison with control measurements with solely monolithic silicon cavities, are enabled only by the dramatically-large and chi(3) nonlinearities in graphene and the large Q/V ratios in wavelength-localized photonic crystal cavities. These results demonstrate the feasibility and versatility of hybrid two-dimensional graphene-silicon nanophotonic devices for next-generation chip-scale ultrafast optical communications, radio-frequency optoelectronics, and all-optical signal processing.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4333

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