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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Microoptics Conference (MOC), 2013 18th
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
