Enhancement of the photocurrents injected in gapped graphene by the orthogonally polarized two-color laser field

We theoretically investigate the photocurrents injected in gapped graphene by the orthogonally polarized two-color laser field. Depending on the relative phase, the photocurrents can be coherently controlled by deforming the electron trajectory in the reciprocal space. Under the same field strength, the peak photocurrent in the orthogonally polarized two-color field is about 20 times larger than that for linearly polarized light, and about 3.6 times for elliptically polarized light. The enhancement of the photocurrent can be attributed to an obvious asymmetric distribution of the real population in the reciprocal space, which is sensitive to the waveform of the laser field and related to the quantum interference between the electron trajectories. Our work provides a noncontact method to effectively enhance the injected current in graphene. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement

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The study demonstrates that the injected current in graphene can be effectively enhanced by controlling the orthogonally polarized two-color laser field. The increase in photocurrent is related to the waveform of the laser and quantum interference between the electron trajectories.