  We show that the optical excitation of graphene with polarized light leads to
the pure valley current where carriers in the valleys counterflow. The current
in each valley originates from asymmetry of optical transitions and electron
scattering by impurities owing to the warping of electron energy spectrum. The
valley current has strong polarization dependence, its direction is opposite
for normally incident beams of orthogonal linear polarizations. In undoped
graphene on a substrate with high susceptibility, electron-electron scattering
leads to an additional contribution to the valley current that can dominate.
