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PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED
Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.6.044006
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- ERC [336940]
- EU-FET GRAPHENICS Project [618086]
- Hercules-stichting Grant [UABR/007/09]
- FWO Project [G.A002.13N]
- EU-FP7 Graphene Flagship [604391]
- VUB-OZR
- BELSPO-IAP
- Methusalem
- European Research Council (ERC) [336940] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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We experimentally demonstrate a negative Kerr nonlinearity for quasiundoped graphene. Hereto, we introduce the method of chirped-pulse-pumped self-phase modulation and apply it to graphene-covered silicon waveguides at telecom wavelengths. The extracted Kerr-nonlinear index for graphene equals n(2,gr) = -10(-13) m(2) = W. Whereas the sign of n(2,gr) turns out to be negative in contrast to what has been assumed so far, its magnitude is in correspondence with that observed in earlier experiments. Graphene's negative Kerr nonlinearity strongly impacts how graphene should be exploited for enhancing the nonlinear response of photonic (integrated) devices exhibiting a positive nonlinearity. It also opens up the possibility of using graphene to annihilate unwanted nonlinear effects in such devices, to develop unexplored approaches for establishing Kerr processes, and to extend the scope of the periodic poling method often used for second-order nonlinearities towards third-order Kerr processes. Because of the generic nature of the chirped-pulse-pumped self-phase modulation method, it will allow fully characterizing the Kerr nonlinearity of essentially any novel (2D) material.
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