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Experimental demonstration of a graphene-based hybrid plasmonic modulator
- Source :
- Optics Letters. 44:2586
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- The Optical Society, 2019.
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Abstract
- In this Letter, we report a graphene-based hybrid plasmonic modulator (GHPM) realized by employing the electro-absorption effect of graphene. The simulation results show that the modulation efficiency of GHPM, i.e., extinction ratio per length, can be as large as 0.417 dB/μm, which is more than twice as much as that of recently presented graphene-on-silicon modulator. It was found that the improvement in modulation efficiency is mainly due to the enhancement of the overlap between graphene and the mode field in GHPM. A prototype of GHPM was fabricated. The measurement results showed that the GHPM can work in a broadband from 1530 to 1570 nm and an improved modulation efficiency of 1.08 dB (at 30 μm). Finally, we have discussed the factors that influence the modulation efficiency. Our proof-of-concept design may promote the development of on-chip graphene-based plasmonic devices.
- Subjects :
- Materials science
Extinction ratio
business.industry
Graphene
02 engineering and technology
Chemical vapor deposition
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
01 natural sciences
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
law.invention
010309 optics
Optics
law
0103 physical sciences
Broadband
0210 nano-technology
business
Modulation efficiency
Plasmon
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15394794 and 01469592
- Volume :
- 44
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Optics Letters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....367332c24ab4e68e797de1a0da4d0600