• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 5, Issue 3, 162 (2017)
Hua Lu1、*, Xuetao Gan1, Dong Mao1, and Jianlin Zhao1、2
Author Affiliations
  • 1MOE Key Laboratory of Space Applied Physics and Chemistry, and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, School of Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
  • 2e-mail: jlzhao@nwpu.edu.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.5.000162 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Hua Lu, Xuetao Gan, Dong Mao, Jianlin Zhao. Graphene-supported manipulation of surface plasmon polaritons in metallic nanowaveguides[J]. Photonics Research, 2017, 5(3): 162 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    We investigate the electrically controlled light propagation in the metal–dielectric–metal plasmonic waveguide with a sandwiched graphene monolayer. The theoretical and simulation results show that the propagation loss exhibits an obvious peak when the permittivity of graphene approaches an epsilon-near-zero point when adjusting the gate voltage on graphene. The analog of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) can be generated by introducing side-coupled stubs into the waveguide. Based on the EIT-like effect, the hybrid plasmonic waveguide with a length of only 1.5 μm can work as a modulator with an extinction ratio of 15.8 dB, which is 2.3 times larger than the case without the stubs. The active modulation of surface plasmon polariton propagation can be further improved by tuning the carrier mobility of graphene. The graphene-supported plasmonic waveguide system could find applications for the nanoscale manipulation of light and chip-integrated modulation.
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    Hua Lu, Xuetao Gan, Dong Mao, Jianlin Zhao. Graphene-supported manipulation of surface plasmon polaritons in metallic nanowaveguides[J]. Photonics Research, 2017, 5(3): 162
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