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Graphene supports the manipulating multiple mode propagation in the hybrid plasmonic waveguides

JICHENG WANG1,2,* , XIAOSAI WANG1, ZHENG-DA HU1, CI SONG1, SHUTIAN LIU2

Affiliation

  1. School of Science, Jiangsu Provincial Research Center of Light Industrial Optoelectronic Engineering and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122 China
  2. Department of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technoogy, Harbin 150001, China

Abstract

A new type of plasmonic waveguide based on a graphene-coated V-groove structure which can achieve better subwavelength confinements and longer propagation compared to the conventional metal waveguide is proposed. By dynamically altering the chemical potential of graphene, graphene surface plasmon polaritons (GSPPs) multiple modes of the hybrid graphene-coated waveguide can be reached. And the mode field energies can be well confined in the V-groove or the waveguide. The mode confinement becomes weaker and the propagation length gets longer as the chemical potential of graphene increasing. In addition, the mode propagation can be changed by adjusting the radius of the waveguide and the frequencies and the higher mode is achieved at the same time. The finite element method (FEM) has been employed to study the mode distributions and electromagnetic responses of our designs at mid-infrared frequencies. Those proposed structures may pave a way for the further development of ultra-compact, fast-tunable and long-propagation devices in the infrared region (IR)..

Keywords

Graphene plasmonics, Mode propagation, Hybrid waveguide, FEM.

Citation

JICHENG WANG, XIAOSAI WANG, ZHENG-DA HU, CI SONG, SHUTIAN LIU, Graphene supports the manipulating multiple mode propagation in the hybrid plasmonic waveguides, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 10, 11-12, November–December 2016, pp.847-854 (2016).

Submitted at: May 31, 2016

Accepted at: Nov. 25, 2016