Abstract
A new type of plasmonic waveguide based on a graphene-coated V-groove structure which can achieve better
subwavelength confinements and longer propagation compared to the conventional metal waveguide is proposed. By
dynamically altering the chemical potential of graphene, graphene surface plasmon polaritons (GSPPs) multiple modes of
the hybrid graphene-coated waveguide can be reached. And the mode field energies can be well confined in the V-groove or
the waveguide. The mode confinement becomes weaker and the propagation length gets longer as the chemical potential of
graphene increasing. In addition, the mode propagation can be changed by adjusting the radius of the waveguide and the
frequencies and the higher mode is achieved at the same time. The finite element method (FEM) has been employed to
study the mode distributions and electromagnetic responses of our designs at mid-infrared frequencies. Those proposed
structures may pave a way for the further development of ultra-compact, fast-tunable and long-propagation devices in the
infrared region (IR)..
Keywords
Graphene plasmonics, Mode propagation, Hybrid waveguide, FEM.
Citation
JICHENG WANG, XIAOSAI WANG, ZHENG-DA HU, CI SONG, SHUTIAN LIU, Graphene supports the manipulating multiple mode propagation in the hybrid plasmonic waveguides, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 10, 11-12, November–December 2016, pp.847-854 (2016).
Submitted at: May 31, 2016
Accepted at: Nov. 25, 2016