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Tunable Wide-Angle Tunneling in Graphene-Assisted Frustrated Total Internal Reflection.


ABSTRACT: Electrically tunable permittivity of graphene provides an excellent tool in photonic device design. Many previous works on graphene-based photonic devices relied on variable absorption in graphene, which is naturally small in the optical region, and resonant structures to enhance it. Here we proposed a novel scheme to control evanescent coupling strength by inserting two graphene layers to a frustrated total internal reflection (FTIR) configuration. The resulting structure behaves in a drastically different way from the original FTIR: optical transmission though the structure can be electrically controlled from ~10(-5) to ~1 with little dependency on angle of incidence. This unique feature stems from the fact that the permittivity of doped graphene can be close to zero at a certain photon energy. The electrical controllability of evanescent coupling strength can enable novel design of optical devices. As a proof-of-concept, we designed a waveguide-type optical modulator of a novel operation principle: transmission modulation depends on the electrically controlled existence of a guided-mode of the waveguide, not the variation of the ohmic loss of graphene, resulting in a low insertion loss and a small device footprint.

SUBMITTER: Tran TQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4728486 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Tunable Wide-Angle Tunneling in Graphene-Assisted Frustrated Total Internal Reflection.

Tran Thang Q TQ   Lee Sangjun S   Heo Hyungjun H   Kim Sangin S  

Scientific reports 20160127


Electrically tunable permittivity of graphene provides an excellent tool in photonic device design. Many previous works on graphene-based photonic devices relied on variable absorption in graphene, which is naturally small in the optical region, and resonant structures to enhance it. Here we proposed a novel scheme to control evanescent coupling strength by inserting two graphene layers to a frustrated total internal reflection (FTIR) configuration. The resulting structure behaves in a drastical  ...[more]

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