• 文献标题:   A broadband enhanced plasmonic modulator based on double-layer graphene at mid-infrared wavelength
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CHI J, LIU HJ, HUANG N, WANG ZL
  • 作者关键词:   doublelayer graphene, enhanced plasmonic, tunable modulator
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS DAPPLIED PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   0022-3727 EI 1361-6463
  • 通讯作者地址:   Chinese Acad Sci
  • 被引频次:   4
  • DOI:   10.1088/1361-6463/ab36dc
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Graphene is as an essential material for light modulation owing to controlling broadband absorption and plasmon excitation. Here, we propose a mid-infrared enhanced plasmonic modulator that integrates double-layer graphene in a reflective structure. It is demonstrated that double-layer graphene can support plasmonic resonances with higher oscillator intensity than single-layer in this modulator. The proposed modulator exhibits a modulation depth up to 21 dB and 3 dB bandwidth of 47.4 GHz over a wide range of wavelength (3.17 mu m to 4.4 mu m). Moreover, the maximum insertion loss of it is barely about 0.27 dB and the minimum of that is about 0.1 dB. This graphene-based modulator, with combined advantages of high modulation depth, low insertion loss and ultrafast modulation speed, holds potential in efficient manipulating MIR lights in free space communication.