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We report on a C-band double layer graphene electro-absorption modulator on a passive SOI platform showing 29GHz 3dB-bandwith and NRZ eye-diagrams extinction ratios ranging from 1.7 dB at 10 Gb/s to 1.3 dB at 50 Gb/s. Such high modulation…

We propose a new type of optical transistor for a broadband amplification of THz radiation. It is made of a graphene--superconductor hybrid, where electrons and Cooper pairs couple by Coulomb forces. The transistor operates via the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Kristian Hauser A. Villegas , Fedor V. Kusmartsev , Y. Luo , Ivan G. Savenko

Research on graphene has revealed its unique optical properties, including strong coupling with light, high-speed operation, and gate-variable optical conductivity, which promise to satisfy the needs of future electro-optic (EO) modulators.…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-13 Zhaolin Lu , Wangshi Zhao

The metamaterial analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in terahertz (THz) regime holds fascinating prospects for filling the THz gap in various functional devices. In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid metamaterial…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-01 Tingting Liu

We investigate the effect of spatial dispersion phenomenon on the performance of graphene-based plasmonic devices at THz. For this purpose, two different components, namely a phase shifter and a low-pass filter, are taken from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 Diego Correas-Serrano , Juan Sebastian Gomez-Diaz , Alejandro Alvarez-Melcon

Emerging technology based on artificial materials containing metallic structures has raised the prospect for unprecedented control of terahertz waves through components like filters, absorbers and polarizers. The functionality of these…

It is evidenced by numerical calculations that optically pumped graphene is suitable for compensating inherent loss in terahertz (THz) metamaterials. In a first step, the complex conductivity of graphene under optical pumping is calculated…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Peter Weis , Juan Luis Garcia-Pomar , Marco Rahm

We show that a graphene sheet perforated with micro- or nano-size antidots have prominent absorption resonances in the microwave and terahertz regions. These resonances correspond to surface plasmons of a continuous sheet "perturbed" by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Yu. Nikitin , F. Guinea , L. Martin-Moreno

We demonstrated an ultra-broadband, polarization-insensitive and wide-angle metamaterial absorber for terahertz (THz) frequencies using arrays of truncated pyramid unit structure made of metal-dielectric multilayer composite. In our design…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-02 Jianfei Zhu , Zhaofeng Ma , Wujiong Sun , Fei Ding , Qiong He , Lei Zhou , Yungui Ma

We show that graphene possesses a strong nonlinear optical response in the form of multi-plasmon absorption, with exciting implications in classical and quantum nonlinear optics. Specifically, we predict that graphene nano-ribbons can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-22 Marinko Jablan , Darrick E. Chang

Electromagnetic absorbers have drawn increasing attention in many areas. A series of plasmonic and metamaterial structures can work as efficient narrow band absorbers due to the excitation of plasmonic or photonic resonances, providing a…

In recent years, graphene Field-Effect-Transistors (GFETs) have demonstrated an outstanding potential for Terahertz (THz) photodetection due to their fast response and high-sensitivity. Such features are essential to enable emerging THz…

Graphene has emerged as a promising building block in the modern optics and optoelectronics due to its novel optical and electrical properties. In the mid-infrared and terahertz (THz) regime, graphene behaves like metals and supports…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-15 Shuyuan Xiao , Tao Wang , Xiaoyun Jiang , Xicheng Yan , Le Cheng , Boyun Wang , Chen Xu

The unique terahertz properties of graphene has been identified for novel optoelectronic applications. In a graphene sample with bias voltage added, there is an enhanced absorption in the far infrared region and a diminished absorption in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-18 Yuan Yang , Grigory Kolesov , Lucas Kocia , Eric J. Heller

Deep and fast electro-optic modulation is critical for high-speed near infrared signal processing. We combine the electro-absorption tunability of graphene with the high-Q resonance of a Bragg-based Fabry-Perot resonator at {\lambda}=1550…

This paper investigates tunable magneto-plasmons in graphene-based structures combined with gyro-electric layers. In the general waveguide, each graphene sheet has been sandwiched between two different gyro-electric layers. The whole…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-19 Mohammad Bagher Heydari

In this work, a plasmonic right-angled waveguide bend and divider are proposed. Using the Transformation Optics (TO) approach the transformation media of a bend and a T-shaped divider are obtained. Such media with continuous refractive…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-07 Samaneh Pakniyat , Shahrokh Jam , Alireza Yahaghi , George W Hanson

We propose the terahertz (THz) detectors based on field-effect transistors (FETs) with the graphene channel (GC) and the black-Arsenic (b-As) black-Phosphorus (b-P), or black-Arsenic-Phosphorus (b-As$_x$P$_{1-x}$) gate barrier layer. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-26 V. Ryzhii , C. Tang , T. Otsuji , M. Ryzhii , V. Mitin , M. S. Shur

We present the design, simulation and optimization of a graphene-on-silicon nitride (GOSiN) integrated waveguide dual-mode electro-absorption modulator operating with a speed between 27-109 GHz and an energy consumption below 6 pJ/bit. This…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-05-06 Fernando Martín-Romero , Víctor Jesús Gómez

The gate-tunable terahertz (THz) absorption of graphene layers with a resonant metal back reflector (RMBF) is theoretically investigated. We demonstrate that the THz absorption of graphene with RMBF can vary from nearly negligible to nearly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Jiang-Tao Liu , Nian-Hua Liu , Li Wang , Xin-Hua Deng , Fu-Hai Su