Nonlinear switching with a graphene coupler
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Daria A. Smirnova,1 Andrey V. Gorbach,2 Ivan V. Iorsh,3 Ilya V. Shadrivov,1 and Yuri S. Kivshar1,3 1Nonlinear Physics Center, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia 2Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials, Department of Physics, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom 3National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO), St. Petersburg 197101, Russia (Received 14 May 2013; published 31 July 2013)
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