• 文献标题:   Plasmonic Rainbow Trapping by a Silica-Graphene-Silica on a Sloping Silicon Substrate
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YIN X, ZHANG T, CHEN L, LI X
  • 作者关键词:   nanophotonic, optical waveguide, plasmon
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   0733-8724 EI 1558-2213
  • 通讯作者地址:   Huazhong Univ Sci Technol
  • 被引频次:   6
  • DOI:   10.1109/JLT.2014.2350481
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

We give a proposal for plasmonic rainbow trapping based on a novel structure comprised of a silica-graphene-silica on a sloping silicon substrate, which, importantly, overcomes the intrinsic constraints that are required by metal/dielectric interface. As compared with previous plasmonic grating structures for rainbow trapping, the adiabatic control of the dispersion curve for the present one is achieved by gradually changing the equivalent permittivity of the graphene monolayer via the gap separation between the graphene monolayer and the silicon substrate. We attribute the rainbow trapping effect to the correlative dispersive relation between the slow plasmonic mode and the gap separation between the graphene monolayer and silicon substrate, which leads to the localization of light waves of different frequencies at different positions on the graphene surface. The group velocity can be reduced to be 1000 times smaller than light velocity in air, which is 1-2 smaller than that was previously reported in dielectric gratings-based plasmonic structures.