Dynamic control of coherent pulses via destructive interference in graphene under Landau quantization

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 2513 - 12
• Main Authors: Yang, Wen-Xing, Chen, Ai-Xi, Xie, Xiao-Tao, Liu, Shaopeng, Liu, Shasha
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 31.05.2017; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 639/624/400/482; 639/766/400/561; Communication devices; Humanities and Social Sciences; Microscopes; multidisciplinary; Science; Science (multidisciplinary)
• ISSN: 2045-2322; 2045-2322
• DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-02740-x

We analyze the destructive interference in monolayer graphene under Landau quantization in a time-dependent way by using the Bloch-Maxwell formalism. Based on this analysis, we investigate the dynamics control of an infrared probe and a terahertz (THz) switch pulses in graphene. In presence of the THz switch pulse, the destructive interference take places and can be optimized so that the monolayer graphene is completely transparent to the infrared probe pulse. In absence of the THz switch pulse, however, the infrared probe pulse is absorbed due to such a interference does not take place. Furthermore, we provide a clear physics insight of this destructive interference by using the classical dressed-state theory. Conversely, the present model may be rendered either absorbing or transparent to the THz switch pulse. By choosing appropriate wave form of the probe and switch pulses, we show that both infrared probe and THz switch pulses exhibit the steplike transitions between absorption and transparency. Such steplike transitions can be used to devise a versatile quantum interference-based solid-state optical switching with distinct wave-lengths for optical communication devices.