• 文献标题:   Ultrasensitive Terahertz Imaging Sensors Based on the Strong Coupling of Surface Phonon Polariton and Graphene Surface Plasmon Polariton
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHU JQ, RUAN BX, YOU Q, WU LM, CAI HZ, DAI XY, XIANG YJ
  • 作者关键词:   surface plasmon resonance, surface phonon polaritons sphps, terahertz sensor, graphene
  • 出版物名称:   IEEE PHOTONICS JOURNAL
  • ISSN:   1943-0655 EI 1943-0647
  • 通讯作者地址:   Shenzhen Univ
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1109/JPHOT.2018.2870121
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) with noble metals lose the capacity to confine the optical field in the long wavelength region, while surface phonon polaritons (SPhPs) in polar dielectrics show greater ability to achieve high local field, sub-diffraction confinement, and low optical losses in the mid-IR to THz spectral ranges. We propose a hybrid structure based on SPhPs mode with Csl and SPPs mode with graphene in THz spectral ranges. The characteristics of the coupling of these two modes have been analyzed and strong coupling has been confirmed theoretically. The results are applied to an intensity-interrogated terahertz sensor; the highest imaging sensitivity as high as 954 RIU-1 and a large figure of merit of 74 740 RIU-1 have been demonstrated. The results could find potential applications in gas detection in the THz band.