Low Insertion Loss Plasmon-Enhanced Graphene All-Optical Modulator

Enhanced all-optical modulation in a graphene-coated fibre with low insertion loss

Graphene is a highly versatile two-dimensional material platform that offers exceptional optical and electrical properties. Of these, its dynamic conductivity and low effective carrier mass are of particular interest for optoelectronic applications as they underpin the material's broadband nonlinear optical absorption and ultra-fast carrier mobility, respectively. In this paper, we utilize thes...

Ultrafast all-optical graphene modulator.

Graphene is an optical material of unusual characteristics because of its linearly dispersive conduction and valence bands and the strong interband transitions. It allows broadband light-matter interactions with ultrafast responses and can be readily pasted to surfaces of functional structures for photonic and optoelectronic applications. Recently, graphene-based optical modulators have been de...

Graphene based All-Optical Spatial Terahertz Modulator

We demonstrate an all-optical terahertz modulator based on single-layer graphene on germanium (GOG), which can be driven by a 1.55 μm CW laser with a low-level photodoping power. Both the static and dynamic THz transmission modulation experiments were carried out. A spectrally wide-band modulation of the THz transmission is obtained in a frequency range from 0.25 to 1 THz, and a modulation dept...

Surface Plasmon Optical Modulator

Double-layer graphene optical modulator.

Here we report a high-performance double-layer graphene optical modulator. By using two graphene layers and an oxide layer in between to form a p-oxide-n like junction, this modulator operates at 1 GHz with a high modulation depth (~0.16 dB/μm) at a moderate drive voltage (~5 V). Benefited from the symmetrical band structure of graphene near Dirac point, such design eliminates the optical loss ...