• DocumentCode
    243080
  • Title

    Ultra-Compact Mid-IR Modulators Based on Electrically Tunable Optical Antennas

  • Author

    Yu Yao ; Kats, Mikhail A. ; Shankar, Raji ; Loncar, Marko ; Capasso, Federico ; Yi Song ; Jing Kong

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Eng. & Appl. Sci., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    14-16 July 2014
  • Firstpage
    51
  • Lastpage
    52
  • Abstract
    We demonstrated electrical tuning of optical antennas over a broad wavelength range (~1100 nm, ~20% of the resonance frequency) and achieved optical modulators at the mid-infrared wavelength range with nanosecond response time.
  • Keywords
    antennas; infrared spectra; optical design techniques; optical modulation; optical tuning; electrically tunable optical antennas; nanosecond response time; resonance frequency; ultracompact midinfrared modulators; Antennas; Biomedical optical imaging; Graphene; Optical modulation; Optical sensors; Plasmons; graphene; mid-infrared; optical antennas; optical modulator; reconfigurable metasurface;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2014 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Montreal, QC
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-2766-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SUM.2014.37
  • Filename
    6902982