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Manipulation of slow and superluminal light based on a graphene nanoribbon resonator

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We theoretically investigate the phenomena of slow and superluminal light based on a doubly clamped Z-shaped graphene nanoribbon (GNR) nanomechanical resonator driven by two-tone fields. Superluminal and ultraslow probe light without absorption can be obtained via manipulating the pump laser on- and off-resonant with the exciton frequency, respectively. The results indicate that the above phenomena cannot occur without the coupling between graphene resonator and excition in the system. Further, the all-optical schemes for determining the graphene resonator frequency and the coupling strength of excition-resonator in the Z-shaped GNR system are also proposed. The all-optical device based on graphene resonator may have potential application in optical networks and engineering in nanoscale.

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Chen, HJ., Sun, BB., Wu, HW. et al. Manipulation of slow and superluminal light based on a graphene nanoribbon resonator. Eur. Phys. J. D 71, 67 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2017-70595-x

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