Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Ultrafast nonlinear optical response of Dirac fermions in graphene

  • Matthias Baudisch,
  • Andrea Marini,
  • Joel D. Cox,
  • Tony Zhu,
  • Francisco Silva,
  • Stephan Teichmann,
  • Mathieu Massicotte,
  • Frank Koppens,
  • Leonid S. Levitov,
  • F. Javier García de Abajo,
  • Jens Biegert

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03413-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Graphene possesses a nonlinear optical response arising from its electronic dispersion. Here, the authors measure the response of graphene to an ultrafast optical field and provide an explanation of the quantum dynamics of Dirac carriers mediating the material’s nonlinear response.