paper

Efficient coupling of light to graphene plasmons by compressing surface polaritons with tapered bulk materials

arXiv:1805.01362 · doi:10.1021/nl500943r

Abstract

Graphene plasmons promise exciting nanophotonic and optoelectronic applications. Owing to their extremely short wavelengths, however, the efficient coupling of photons to graphene plasmons - critical for the development of future devices - can be challenging. Here, we propose and numerically demonstrate coupling between infrared photons and graphene plasmons by the compression of surface polaritons on tapered bulk slabs of both polar and doped- semiconductor materials. Propagation of the surface phonon polaritons (in SiC) and surface plasmon polaritons (in n-GaAs) along the tapered slabs compresses the polariton wavelengths from several micrometers to around 200 nm, which perfectly matches the wavelengths of graphene plasmons. The proposed coupling device allows for a 25% conversion of the incident photon energy into graphene plasmons and, therefore, could become an efficient route towards graphene plasmon circuitry.

arXiv commentThis document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Nano Letters, copyright American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher http://pubs.acs.org/

References in corpus (18)

Cited by in corpus (5)