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Erschienen in: Optical and Quantum Electronics 11/2017

01.11.2017

Graphene-integrated split-ring resonator terahertz modulator

verfasst von: Shi Ye-xin, Li Jiu-sheng, Zhang Le

Erschienen in: Optical and Quantum Electronics | Ausgabe 11/2017

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Abstract

A novel terahertz modulator based on graphene split-ring resonator (SRR) is proposed and designed. The device consists of a graphene SRR and two graphene surface plasmon polaritons waveguides. By changing the chemical potential of the graphene SRR, a compact terahertz wave modulator with an extraordinary modulation depth of 98.9% and low insertion loss of 0.83 dB is achieved. The results show that an electrically controlled graphene-integrated SRR terahertz modulator can be realized. The size of the proposed device is of 13 µm × 7 µm. It makes the graphene-based terahertz modulator promising as single-chip solutions for the compact terahertz system.

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Metadaten
Titel
Graphene-integrated split-ring resonator terahertz modulator
verfasst von
Shi Ye-xin
Li Jiu-sheng
Zhang Le
Publikationsdatum
01.11.2017
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Optical and Quantum Electronics / Ausgabe 11/2017
Print ISSN: 0306-8919
Elektronische ISSN: 1572-817X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-017-1198-x

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