• 文献标题:   High-Speed Traveling-Wave Modulator Based on Graphene and Microfiber
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   XU K, XIE YQ, XIE HC, LIU YJ, YAO Y, DU JB, HE ZY, SONG QH
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, modulator, traveling wave electrode
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   0733-8724 EI 1558-2213
  • 通讯作者地址:   Harbin Inst Technol Shenzhen
  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.1109/JLT.2018.2864606
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

The two-dimensional graphene has an extremely high carrier mobility that can potentially offer an electrical bandwidth of over 500 GHz. However, the bandwidth of the reported graphene-based modulators is only a few tens of gigahertz due to the limitation of the RC constant rather than the carrier transit time. In this paper, a high-speed traveling-wave electro-optic modulator based on a graphene/microfiber structure is proposed and investigated for the first time to the best of our knowledge. The all-in-fiber electro-optic modulation in the graphene/microfiber-modulator is achieved by changing the Fermi level of graphene during its interaction with the evanescent wave of the microfiber. The active length of the modulator is 1.372 mm with a V-pi of 4.9 V. The coplanar strip electrodes have a characteristic impedance of 54 SI and a microwave attenuation of 0.967 dB/mm. The mismatch between the microwave and the optical group velocity is 7.38%. A very high speed of 82 GHz 3-dB bandwidth is achieved.