• 文献标题:   High-modulation depth modulator based on double-layer graphene with a low bias voltage
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHOU DP, XIAO BG, XIAO LH, GUO FL, WANG XM
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, equivalent circuit, silicon compound, optical modulation, silicon, elemental semiconductor, finite element analysi, highmodulation depth modulator, doublelayer graphene, low bias voltage, efficient modulation, graphenebased modulator, modulation bandwidth, reflective modulator, wide working bandwidth, effective method, maximum modulation speed, highperformance modulator, lightmatter interaction, fivelayered structure, graphenesilicagraphenesiliconmetal, equivalent circuit method, csio2csi
  • 出版物名称:   MICRO NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1750-0443
  • 通讯作者地址:   China Jiliang Univ
  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.1049/mnl.2018.5511
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

An efficient modulation can be obtained by graphene due to its outstanding light-matter interaction, and many kinds of modulators based on graphene have been studied during the last couple of years. However, there still exist unsolved issues in graphene-based modulators, such as how to make a balance between modulation depth and modulation bandwidth. This work proposes a reflective modulator with relatively high-modulation depth and wide working bandwidth. The proposed modulator has a simple five-layered structure of graphene-silica-graphene-silicon-metal. They use an effective method of finite element method to simulate the performance of this modulator, and obtain a modulation depth of 96% with a low bias voltage of approximate to 4 V. Furthermore, they calculate the modulation speed by the equivalent circuit method, and obtain the maximum modulation speed of about 25 kHz and a wide broadband of 72 kHz from theoretical analysis. Therefore, this high-performance modulator provides an effective method for terahertz communication devices.