• 文献标题:   Electrically Tunable Four-Wave-Mixing in Graphene Heterogeneous Fiber for Individual Gas Molecule Detection
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   AN N, TAN T, PENG Z, QIN CY, YUAN ZY, BI L, LIAO CR, WANG YP, RAO YJ, SOAVI G, YAO BC
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, fourwave mixing, fiber integrated optic, individual gas molecule detection
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Elect Sci Technol China
  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c02174
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

Detection of individual molecules is the ultimate goal of any chemical sensor. In the case of gas detection, such resolution has been achieved in advanced nanoscale electronic solid-state sensors, but it has not been possible so far in integrated photonic devices, where the weak light-molecule interaction is typically hidden by noise. Here, we demonstrate a scheme to generate ultrasensitive down-conversion four-wave-mixing (FWM) in a graphene bipolar-junction-transistor heterogeneous D-shaped fiber. In the communication band, the FWM conversion efficiency can change steeply when the graphene Fermi level approaches 0.4 eV. In this condition, we exploit our unique two-step optoelectronic heterodyne detection scheme, and we achieve real-time individual gas molecule detection in vacuum. Such combination of graphene strong nonlinearities, electrical tunability, and all-fiber integration paves the way toward the design of versatile high-performance graphene photonic devices.