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The unique optical and electronic properties of graphene allow one to realize active optical devices. While several types of graphene-based photonic modulators have already been demonstrated, the potential of combining the versatility of…

Graphene photonics has emerged as a promising platform for providing desirable optical functionality. However, graphene's monolayer-scale thickness fundamentally restricts the available light matter interaction, posing a critical design…

Optics · Physics 2017-05-11 PoHan Chang , Charles Lin , Amr S. Helmy

When light is absorbed by a semiconductor, photoexcited charge carriers enhance the absorption of far-infrared radiation due to intraband transitions. We observe the opposite behavior in monolayer graphene, a zero-gap semiconductor with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 A. J. Frenzel , C. H. Lui , W. Fang , N. L. Nair , P. K. Herring , P. Jarillo-Herrero , J. Kong , N. Gedik

This article presents a novel approach for designing dual-band absorbers based on graphene and metallic metasurfaces for terahertz and mid-infrared regimes, respectively. The absorbers are composed of a two-dimensional (2D) array of square…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 Saeedeh Barzegar-Parizi , Amin Khavasi

The combination of graphene with semiconductor materials in heterostructure photodetectors, has enabled amplified detection of femtowatt light signals using micron-scale electronic devices. Presently, the speed of such detectors is limited…

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Optical modulators are at the heart of optical communication links. Ideally, they should feature low insertion loss, low drive voltage, large modulation bandwidth, high linearity, compact footprint and low manufacturing cost. Unfortunately,…

In view of the appreciable semiconducting gap of 0.26 eV observed in recent experiments, epitaxial graphene on a SiC substrate seems a promising channel material for FETs. Indeed, it is two-dimensional - and therefore does not require…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Martina Cheli , Paolo Michetti , Giuseppe Iannaccone

Graphene is an ideal material for integrated nonlinear optics thanks to its strong light-matter interaction and large nonlinear optical susceptibility. Graphene has been used in optical modulators, saturable absorbers, nonlinear frequency…

We have demonstrated efficient intersubband electroabsorption in InGaAs/InAlGaAs/InAlAs step quantum wells grown by metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE). An absorption modulation of 6 dB at $\lambda=6.0 \mu$m due to Stark shift of the…

Optics · Physics 2007-11-01 P. Holmström , P. Jänes , U. Ekenberg , L. Thylén

Ultrafast and sensitive (noise equivalent power <1 nWHz-1/2) light-detection in the Terahertz (THz) frequency range (0.1-10 THz) and at room-temperature is key for applications such as time-resolved THz spectroscopy of gases, complex…

Graphene Josephson junctions (JJ) provide a promising platform for ultra-broadband quantum sensing of light owing to graphene's frequency-independent absorption, vanishing electronic heat capacity, and weak electron-phonon coupling, which…

Silicon photonics has emerged as the leading candidate for implementing ultralow power wavelength division multiplexed communication networks in high-performance computers, yet current components (lasers, modulators, filters, and detectors)…

Spectacular advances in heterodyne astronomy with both the Herschel Space Observatory and Stratospheric Observatory for Far Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have been largely due to breakthroughs in detector technology. In order to exploit the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 S. Lara-Avila , A. Danilov , D. Golubev , H. He , K. H. Kim , R. Yakimova , F. Lombardi , T. Bauch , S. Cherednichenko , S. Kubatkin

We report on the synthesis and characterization of the epoxy-based composites with the few-layer graphene fillers, which are capable of the duel functional applications. It was found that composites with the certain types of few-layer…

The modulation depth of 2-D electron gas (2DEG) based THz modulators using AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures with metal gates is inherently limited to < 30%. The metal gate not only attenuates the THz signal (> 90%) but also severely degrades…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez , Tian Fang , Rusen Yan , Michelle M. Kelly , Debdeep Jena , Lei Liu , Huili , Xing

With its electrically tunable light absorption and ultrafast photoresponse, graphene is a promising candidate for high-speed chip-integrated photonics. The generation mechanisms of photosignals in graphene photodetectors have been studied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 Simone Schuler , Daniel Schall , Daniel Neumaier , Lukas Dobusch , Ole Bethge , Benedikt Schwarz , Michael Krall , Thomas Mueller

We investigate advanced CMOS-compatible Graphene/Silicon active metasurfaces based on guided-mode resonance filters. The simulated results show a high extinction ratio (>25 dB), narrow linewidth (~1.5 nm @1550 nm), quality factor of Q~1000,…

Graphene is a unique platform for tunable opto-electronic applications thanks to its linear band dispersion, which allows electrical control of resonant light-matter interactions. Tuning the nonlinear optical response of graphene is…

Graphene / silicon (G/Si) heterostructures have been studied extensively in the past years for applications such as photodiodes, photodetectors and solar cells, with a growing focus on efficiency and performance. Here, a specific contact…

Establishing a reliable communication interface between the brain and electronic devices is of paramount importance for exploiting the full potential of neural prostheses. Current microelectrode technologies for recording electrical…