• DocumentCode
    675247
  • Title

    Design of efficient surface plasmon polariton modulator using graphene

  • Author

    Ho, J.F. ; Iwamoto, Satoshi ; Arakawa, Yasuhiko

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    27-30 Oct. 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We numerically investigate graphene based surface plasmon polariton (SPP) waveguide modulators. We demonstrate that SPP waveguides with metal-air-metal structure can have a two times improvement in the figure of merit, defined by the ratio of extinction ratio to the voltage-off propagation loss, compared to indium-tin oxide based SPP electroabsorption modulators.
  • Keywords
    extinction coefficients; numerical analysis; optical design techniques; optical losses; optical modulation; optical waveguides; polaritons; surface plasmons; C; SPP waveguides; extinction ratio; graphene; metal-air-metal structure; numerical analysis; surface plasmon polariton waveguide modulators; voltage-off propagation loss; Graphene; Modulation; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Slabs; Surface waves;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microoptics Conference (MOC), 2013 18th
  • Conference_Location
    Tokyo
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6715144