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Plasmonic, as a rapidly growing research field, provides new pathways to guide and modulate highly confined light in the microwave to the optical range of frequencies. We demonstrate a plasmonic slot waveguide, at the nanometer scale, based…

The optical properties of vanadium dioxide ($VO_2$) can be tuned via metal-insulator transition. In this work different types of one-dimensional photonic structure-based microcavities that embed vanadium dioxide have been studied in the…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-30 Francesco Scotognella

We investigate a plasmonic electro-optic modulator with an extinction ratio exceeding 1 dB/um by engineering the optical mode to be in-plane with the graphene layer, and show how lowering the operating temperature enables steeper switching.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 Zhizhen Ma , Rubab Amin , Sikandar Khan , Mohammad Tahersima , Volker J. Sorger

A plasmonic modulator is a device that controls the amplitude or phase of propagating plasmons. In a pure plasmonic modulator, the presence or absence of a pump plasmonic wave controls the amplitude of a probe plasmonic wave through a…

Effectively continuous control over propagation of a beam of light requires light modulation with pixelation that is smaller than the optical wavelength. Here we propose a spatial intensity modulator with sub-wavelength resolution in one…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-21 Pablo Cencillo-Abad , Nikolay I. Zheludev , Eric Plum

We propose deep-subwavelength optical waveguides based on metal-dielectric multilayer indefinite metamaterials with ultrahigh effective refractive indices. Waveguide modes with different mode orders are systematically analyzed with…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-04 Yingran He , Sailing He , Jie Gao , Xiaodong Yang

A terahertz absorber with controllable and switchable bandwidth and insensitive to polarization is of great interest. Here, we propose and demonstrate a metasurface absorber with switchable bandwidth based on a phase-change material of…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-08 S. Hadi Badri , M. M. Gilarlue , Sanam SaeidNahaei , Jong Su Kim

In this paper, a numerical solution for a plasmonic absorption modulator is presented with a six-layer structure consisting of an air superstrate, a gold layer, a barium titanate layer, a n type silicon layer, a gold layer and a thin-shell…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-23 Purya Es'haghi , Ali Barkhordari , Abolfazl Safaei Bezgabadi

Efficient, low-loss, and versatile optical modulators are a critical ingredient for practical integrated photonic systems. Modulators based on micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) have unique advantages over more traditional thermal,…

Vanadium dioxide is currently considered as one of the most promising metarials for oxide elcteronics. Both planar and sandwich thin-film MOM devices based on VO2 exhibit electrical switching with an S-shaped I-V characteristic, and this…

The integration of a double barrier resonant tunneling diode within a unipolar optical waveguide provides electrical gain over a wide bandwidth. Due to the non-linearities introduced by the double barrier resonant tunneling diode an…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. J. N. Calado , J. M. L. Figueiredo , C. N. Ironside

The ability to control the asymmetric propagation of light in nanophotonic waveguides is of fundamental importance for optical communications and on-chip signal processing. However, in most studies so far, the design of such structures has…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-29 Heran Zhang , Fengchun Zhang , Yao Liang , Xu-Guang Huang , Baohua Jia

The field effect in metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) capacitors plays a key role in field-effect transistors (FETs), which are the fundamental building blocks of modern digital integrated circuits. Recent works show that the field effect can…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-03 Zhaolin Lu , Peichuan Yin , Kaifeng Shi

Long regarded as a model system for studying insulator-to-metal phase transitions, the correlated electron material vanadium dioxide (VO$_2$) is now finding novel uses in device applications. Two of its most appealing aspects are its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-18 M. A. Huber , M. Plankl , M. Eisele , R. E. Marvel , F. Sandner , T. Korn , C. Schüller , R. F. Haglund, , R. Huber , T. L. Cocker

Silicon-organic hybrid integrated devices have emerging applications ranging from high-speed optical interconnects to photonic electromagnetic-field sensors. Silicon slot photonic crystal waveguides (PCWs) filled with electro-optic (EO)…

Electro-optic phase modulators are critical components in modern communication, microwave photonic, and quantum photonic systems. Important for these applications is to achieve modulators with low half-wave voltage at high frequencies. Here…

In this article, a few-layered graphene-dielectric multilayer (metamaterial) electro-optic modulator has been proposed in the mid and far infrared range that works on electro-absorption mechanism. Graphene, both mono layer and few layer, is…

The ability to modulate light at high speeds is of paramount importance for telecommunications, information processing, and medical imaging technologies. This has stimulated intense efforts to master optoelectronic switching at visible and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-01 A. Manjavacas , F. J. Garcia de Abajo

The trapping of ultracold atoms using two-colour evanescent light waves formed by propagating modes of suspended optical rib waveguides is modelled in different configurations. Reducing the anisotropy of the two-colour evanescent optical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Yuri B. Ovchinnikov

The integration density of photonic integrated circuits has been limited by light coupling between waveguides. Traditional approaches to layout the waveguide with high density are based on refractive index engineering to suppress the light…