• 文献标题:   Broadband high-efficiency near-infrared graphene phase modulators enabled by metal-nanoribbon integrated hybrid plasmonic waveguides
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YE LF, YUAN KX, ZHU CH, ZHANG Y, ZHANG Y, LAI KZ
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, integrated optics device, modulator, waveguide
  • 出版物名称:   NANOPHOTONICS
  • ISSN:   2192-8606 EI 2192-8614
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  • 被引频次:   4
  • DOI:   10.1515/nanoph-2021-0709 EA DEC 2021
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

The phase modulator is a key component in optical communications for its phase modulation functions. In this paper, we numerically demonstrate a variety of ultra-compact high-efficiency graphene phase modulators (GPMs) based on metal-nanoribbon integrated hybrid plasmonic waveguides in the near-infrared region. Benefiting from the good in-plane mode polarization matching and strong hybrid surface plasmon polariton and graphene interaction, the 20 mu m-length GPM can achieve excellent phase modulation performance with a good phase and amplitude decoupling effect, a low insertion loss around 0.3 dB/mu m, a high modulation efficiency with V pi L pi of 118.67 V mu m at 1.55 mu m, which is 1-3 orders improvement compared to the state-of-the-art graphene modulators. Furthermore, it has a wide modulation bandwidth of 67.96 GHz, a low energy consumption of 157.49 fJ/bit, and a wide operating wavelength ranging from 1.3 to 1.8 mu m. By reducing the overlap width of the graphene-Al2O3-graphene capacitor, the modulation bandwidth and energy consumption of the modulator can be further improved to 370.36 GHz and 30.22 fJ/bit, respectively. These compact and energy-efficient GPMs may hold a key to various high-speed telecommunications, interconnects, and other graphene-based integrated photonics applications.