• 文献标题:   Group Velocity Modulation and Light Field Focusing of the Edge States in Chirped Valley Graphene Plasmonic Metamaterials
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHUO LQ, HE HR, HUANG RM, SU SJ, LIN ZL, QIU WB, HUANG BJ, KAN Q
  • 作者关键词:   valley degree of freedom, edge state, chirped valley graphene plasmonic metamaterial waveguide, excellent tunability, group velocity modulation
  • 出版物名称:   NANOMATERIALS
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  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.3390/nano11071808
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

The valley degree of freedom, like the spin degree of freedom in spintronics, is regarded as a new information carrier, promoting the emerging valley photonics. Although there exist topologically protected valley edge states which are immune to optical backscattering caused by defects and sharp edges at the inverse valley Hall phase interfaces composed of ordinary optical dielectric materials, the dispersion and the frequency range of the edge states cannot be tuned once the geometrical parameters of the materials are determined. In this paper, we propose a chirped valley graphene plasmonic metamaterial waveguide composed of the valley graphene plasmonic metamaterials (VGPMs) with regularly varying chemical potentials while keeping the geometrical parameters constant. Due to the excellent tunability of graphene, the proposed waveguide supports group velocity modulation and zero group velocity of the edge states, where the light field of different frequencies focuses at different specific locations. The proposed structures may find significant applications in the fields of slow light, micro-nano-optics, topological plasmonics, and on-chip light manipulation.