Photonics (Aug 2022)

Polarization-Insensitive Graphene Modulator Based on Hybrid Plasmonic Waveguide

  • Songyue Liu,
  • Manzhuo Wang,
  • Tingyu Liu,
  • Yan Xu,
  • Jianbo Yue,
  • Yunji Yi,
  • Xiaoqiang Sun,
  • Daming Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics9090609
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 9
p. 609

Abstract

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A polarization-insensitive graphene-assisted electro-optic modulator is proposed. The orthogonal T-shaped metal slot hybrid plasmonic waveguide allows the polarization-independent propagation of transverse electric field mode and complex mode. By the introduction of dual-layer graphene on the ridge waveguide, the polarization-insensitive modulation depths of the TE mode and complex mode are 0.511 dB/µm and 0.502 dB/µm, respectively. The 3 dB bandwidth of the modulator we have proposed is about 127 GHz at the waveguide length of 20 μm. The power consumption of 72 fJ/bit promised potential graphene electro-optic modulator applications for on-chip interconnected information transfer and processing.

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