• 文献标题:   Efficient electro-optic modulation in low-loss graphene-plasmonic slot waveguides
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   DING Y, GUAN X, ZHU X, HU H, BOZHEVOLNYI SI, OXENLOWE LK, JIN KJ, MORTENSEN NA, XIAO S
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  • 出版物名称:   NANOSCALE
  • ISSN:   2040-3364 EI 2040-3372
  • 通讯作者地址:   Tech Univ Denmark
  • 被引频次:   28
  • DOI:   10.1039/c7nr05994a
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Surface plasmon polaritons enable light concentration within subwavelength regions, opening thereby new avenues for miniaturizing the device and strengthening light-matter interactions. Here we realize efficient electro-optic modulation in low-loss plasmonic waveguides with the aid of graphene, and the devices are fully integrated in the silicon-on-insulator platform. By advantageously exploiting low-loss plasmonic slot-waveguide modes, which weakly leak into a substrate while featuring strong fields within the two-layer-graphene covered slots in metals, we successfully achieve a tunability of 0.13 dB mu m(-1) for our fabricated graphene-plasmonic waveguide devices with extremely low insertion loss, which outperforms previously reported graphene-plasmonic devices. Our results highlight the potential of graphene plasmonic leaky-mode hybrid waveguides to realize active ultra-compact devices for optoelectronic applications.