Graphene-Based Hybrid Material Enables Efficient Light Conversion of Invisible Light
Written by AZoNanoDec 16 2020
Nonlinear optical conversion – i.e. the process by which an incident light beam of a certain wavelength turns into rays of different wavelengths, due to its interaction with the material it passes through – is relevant to for many current and future technologies, such as imaging, information storage and processing, telecommunication, quantum technologies, and other fields.
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The ideal material for these applications should provide, first of all, a very high conversion efficiency, which means that a significant fraction of the incoming beam has to be converted into light of the desired wavelengths.