• 文献标题:   Experimental Demonstration of Phase Modulation and Motion Sensing Using Graphene-Integrated Metasurfaces
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   DABIDIAN N, DUTTAGUPTA S, KHOLMANOV I, LAI KF, LU F, LEE J, JIN MZ, TRENDAFILOV S, KHANIKAEV A, FALLAHAZAD B, TUTUC E, BELKIN MA, SHVETS G
  • 作者关键词:   plasmonic metasurface, graphene, phase modulation, polarization modulation, fano resonance, midinfrared
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Texas Austin
  • 被引频次:   37
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b00732
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

Strong interaction of graphene with light accounts for one of its most remarkable properties: the ability to absorb 2.3% of the incident lights energy within a single atomic layer. Free carrier injection via field-effect gating can dramatically vary the optical properties of graphene, thereby enabling fast graphene-based modulators of the light intensity. However, the very thinness of graphene makes it difficult to modulate the other fundamental property of the light wave: its optical phase. Here we demonstrate that considerable phase control can be achieved by integrating a single-layer graphene (SLG) with a resonant plasmonic metasurface that contains nanoscale gaps. By concentrating the light intensity inside of the nanogaps, the metasurface dramatically increases the coupling of light to the SLG and enables control of the phase of the reflected mid-infrared light by as much as 55 degrees via field-effect gating. We experimentally demonstrate graphene-based phase modulators that maintain the amplitude of the reflected light essentially constant over most of the phase tuning range. Rapid nonmechanical phase modulation enables a new experimental technique, graphene-based laser interferometry, which we use to demonstrate motion detection with nanoscale precision. We also demonstrate that by the judicious choice of a strongly anisotropic metasurface the graphene-controlled phase shift of light can be rendered polarization-dependent. Using the experimentally measured phases for the two orthogonal polarizations, we demonstrate that the polarization state of the reflected light can be by modulated by carrier injection into the SLG. These results pave the way for novel high-speed graphene-based optical devices and sensors such as polarimeters, ellipsometers, and frequency modulators.