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Broadband Terahertz Wave Generation from Monolayer Graphene Driven by Few-Cycle Laser Pulse |
| Zhong Guan1, Guo-Li Wang1*, Lei Zhang2, Zhi-Hong Jiao1, Song-Feng Zhao1, and Xiao-Xin Zhou1,3* |
1College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China
2School of Mathematics and Physics, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, China
3Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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Zhong Guan, Guo-Li Wang, Lei Zhang et al 2021 Chin. Phys. Lett. 38 054201 |
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Abstract We theoretically investigate the characteristics of terahertz (THz) radiation from monolayer graphene exposed to normal incident few-cycle laser pulses, by numerically solving the extended semiconductor Bloch equations. Our simulations show that the THz spectra in low frequency regions are highly dependent on the carrier envelope phase (CEP) of driving laser pulses. Using an optimal CEP of few-cycle laser pulses, we can obtain broadband strong THz waves, due to the symmetry breaking of the laser-graphene system. Our results also show that the strength of the THz spectra depend on both the intensity and central wavelength of the laser pulses. The intensity dependence of the THz wave can be described by the excitation rate of graphene, while wavelength dependence can be traced back to the band velocity and the population of graphene. We find that a near single-cycle THz pulse can be obtained from graphene driven by a mid-infrared laser pulse.
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Received: 14 January 2021
Published: 02 May 2021
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| Fund: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11764038, 11864037, 11765018, and 91850209). |
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