• 文献标题:   Switching of Photonic Crystal Lasers by Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   HWANG MS, KIM HR, KIM KH, JEONG KY, PARK JS, CHOI JH, KANG JH, LEE JM, PARK WI, SONG JH, SEO MK, PARK HG
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, photonic crystal, nanolaser, switching
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Korea Univ
  • 被引频次:   14
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b05207
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Unique features of graphene have motivated the development of graphene-integrated photonic devices. In particular, the electrical tunability of graphene loss enables high-speed modulation of light and tuning of cavity resonances in graphene-integrated waveguides and cavities. However, efficient control of light emission such as lasing, using graphene, remains a challenge. In this work, we demonstrate on/off switching of single- and double-cavity photonic crystal lasers by electrical gating of a monolayer graphene sheet on top of photonic crystal cavities. The optical loss of graphene was controlled by varying the gate voltage V-g, with the ion gel atop the graphene sheet. First, the fundamental properties of graphene were investigated through the transmittance measurement and numerical simulations. Next, optically pumped lasing was demonstrated for a graphene-integrated single photonic crystal cavity at V-g below-0.6 V, exhibiting a low lasing threshold of -4801 mu W, whereas lasing was not observed at V-g above -0.6 V owing to the intrinsic optical loss of graphene. Changing quality factor of the graphene-integrated photonic crystal cavity enables or disables the lasing operation. Moreover, in the double-cavity photonic crystal lasers with graphene, switching of individual cavities with separate graphene sheets was achieved, and these two lasing actions were controlled independently despite the close distance of -2.2 mu m between adjacent cavities. We believe that our simple and practical approach for switching in graphene-integrated active photonic devices will pave the way toward designing high-contrast and ultracompact photonic integrated circuits.