Forbidden second order optical nonlinearity of graphene
Jinluo Cheng, Nathalie Vermeulen, John E. Sipe · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2016
We present a practical scheme to separate the contributions of the electric quadrupole-like and the magnetic dipole-like effects to the forbidden second order optical nonlinear response of graphene, and give analytic expressions for the second order optical conductivities, calculated from the independent particle approximation, with relaxation described in a phenomenological way. We predict strong second order nonlinear effects, including second harmonic generation, photon drag, and difference frequency generation. We discuss in detail the controllablity of these responses by tuning the chemical potential, where the interband optical transitions play a dominant role.