• 文献标题:   Nanofocusing in a tapered graphene plasmonic waveguide
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   DAI YY, ZHU XL, MORTENSEN NA, ZI J, XIAO SS
  • 作者关键词:   graphene plasmonic, nanofocusing, waveguiding
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF OPTICS
  • ISSN:   2040-8978 EI 2040-8986
  • 通讯作者地址:   Fudan Univ
  • 被引频次:   13
  • DOI:   10.1088/2040-8978/17/6/065002
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

Gated or doped graphene can support plasmons making it a promising plasmonic material in the terahertz regime. Here, we show numerically that in a tapered graphene plasmonic waveguide mid- and far-infrared light can be focused in nanometer scales, far beyond the diffraction limit. The underlying physics lies in that when propagating along the direction towards the tip both the group and phase velocities of the plasmons supported by the tapered graphene waveguide are reduced accordingly, eventually leading to nanofocusing at the tip with a huge enhancement of optical fields. The nanofocusing of optical fields in tapered graphene plasmonic waveguides could be potentially exploited in the enhancement of light-matter interactions.