Optical Properties of Graphene

This book provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of the optical properties of graphene. During the past decade, graphene, the most ideal and thinnest of all two-dimensional materials, has become one of the most widely studied materials. Its unique properties hold great promise to revolutionize many electronic, optical and opto-electronic devices. The book contains an introductory tutorial and 13 chapters written by experts in areas ranging from fundamental quantum mechanical properties to opto-electronic device applications of graphene.

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A Material that could Revolutionize Photonic and Opto-Electronic Devices

Contents:

• Introductory Tutorial:

  • Introductory Tutorial (Rolf Binder and Nai-Hang Kwong)

• Linear Optical Response and Raman Spectroscopy:

  • Microscopic Theory for the Groundstate and Linear Optical Response of Novel Two-Dimensional Materials with Hexagonal Symmetry (Tineke Stroucken and Stephan W Koch)
  • Raman Spectroscopy of Graphene (Sven Reichardt and Ludger Wirtz)

• Nonlinear Optical Properties:

  • Microscopic View on the Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Graphene (Ermin Malic, Torben Winzer, Faris Kadi and Andreas Knorr)
  • Theory of Optical Nonlinearities in Graphene (Jin Luo Cheng, Nathalie Vermeulen and John E Sipe)
  • Nonlinear Optical Experiments on Graphene (Hui Zhao)

• Terahertz Response:

  • Optical Response of Graphene under Intense Terahertz Fields (Jun Zhou and Ming-Wei Wu)
  • Nonlinear Terahertz Spectroscopy on Multilayer Graphene (Michael Woerner, Thomas Elsaesser and Klaus Reimann)
  • Ultrafast Manipulation of Terahertz Waves using Graphene Metamaterials (Chihun In and Hyunyong Choi)

• Saddle Point Spectroscopy:

  • Spectroscopy of Graphene at the Saddle Point (Daniela Wolf, Dong-Hun Chae, Tobias Utika, Patrick Herlinger, Jurgen Smet, Harald Giessen and Markus Lippitz)
  • Nonlinear Saddle Point Spectroscopy and Electron-Phonon Interaction in Graphene (Rolf Binder, Adam T Roberts, Nai-Hang Kwong, Arvinder Sandhu and Henry O Everitt)

• Device Applications:

  • Femtosecond Pulse Generation with Voltage-Controlled Graphene Saturable Absorbers (Işinsu Baylam, Sarper Özharar, Nurbek Kakenov, Coşkun Kocabaş and Alphan Sennaroǧlu)
  • Graphene-Based Optical Modulators (Sinan Balci and Coskun Kocabas)
  • The Potential of Graphene as a Transparent Electrode (Wee Shing Koh, Wee Kee Phua and Wei Peng Goh)

• Color Plates

Readership: Advanced undergraduates, graduates, professionals and researchers in materials science and optical sciences.
Key Features:

• There is no other book with a focus on the optical properties of graphene, in spite of the large interest by researchers worldwide graphene and other two-dimensional materials and possible future device applications