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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Montreal, QC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2766-1
DOI :
10.1109/SUM.2014.37
