• 文献标题:   Plasmonic Jackiw-Rebbi Modes in Graphene Waveguide Arrays
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   XU CY, ZHANG P, ZHAO D, GUO H, HUANG MQ, KE SL
  • 作者关键词:   surface plasmon polariton, waveguide array, topological bound mode
  • 出版物名称:   APPLIED SCIENCESBASEL
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  • 通讯作者地址:   Wuhan Inst Technol
  • 被引频次:   8
  • DOI:   10.3390/app9194152
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

We investigate the topological bound modes of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in a graphene pair waveguide array. The arrays are with uniform inter-layer and intra-layer spacings but the chemical potential of two graphene in each pair are different. The topological bound modes emerge when two arrays with opposite sequences of chemical potential are interfaced, which are analogous to Jackiw-Rebbi modes with opposite mass. We show the topological bound modes can be dynamically controlled by tuning the chemical potential, and the propagation loss of topological bound modes can be remarkably reduced by decreasing the chemical potential. Thanks to the strong confinement of graphene SPPs, the modal wavelength of topological bound modes can be squeezed as small as 1/70 of incident wavelength. The study provides a promising approach to realizing robust light transport beyond diffraction limit.