High performance integrated polarizers achieved by incorporating 2D layered graphene oxide films
arXiv:2010.07782 · doi:10.1117/12.2544584
Abstract
Polarizers and polarization selective resonant cavities (e.g., ring resonators, gratings), are key components for applications to photography, coherent optical detection, polarization-division-multiplexing, optical sensing and liquid crystal displays. We demonstrate waveguide polarizers and polarization discriminating micro-ring resonators (MRRs) by integrating them with 2D graphene oxide (GO) layered thin films. We achieve precise control of the thickness, placement, and size of the films integrated onto photonic devices with a solution based, layer-by-layer transfer-free coating method combined with photolithography and lift-off. This overcomes limitations of layer transfer methods for 2D materials and is a significant advance to manufacturing integrated photonic devices incorporated with 2D materials. We measure the waveguide polarizer for different film thicknesses and lengths versus wavelength, polarization, and power, measuring a high polarization dependent loss (PDL) of ~ 53.8 dB. For GO-coated MRRs, we achieve an extinction ratio difference for TE/TM polarizations of 8.3-dB. We also present measurements of the linear optical properties of 2D layered GO films that yield the material loss anisotropy of the GO films and relative contribution of film loss anisotropy versus polarization-dependent mode overlap. Our results offer interesting physical insights into the transition of the layered GO films from 2D behaviour to quasi bulk like behavior and confirm the high performance of GO based integrated polarization selective devices.
arXiv comment8 pages, 5 figures, 55 references. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1907.06861
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