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Fabrication And Characterization Of Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides And Cavities
Published on: November 30, 2012
A compact, all-optical, THz wave generator based on self-modulation in a slab photonic crystal waveguide with a
R Asadi1, Z Ouyang, M M Mohammd
1THz Technical Research Center, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Micro-nano Photonic Information Technology, Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Device and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, College of Electronic Science and Technology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China. zbouyang@szu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
We design a compact, all-optical THz wave generator based on self-modulation in a 1-D slab photonic crystal (PhC) waveguide with a single sub-nanometer graphene layer by using enhanced nonlinearity of graphene. It has been shown that at the bandgap edge of higher bands of a 1-D slab PhC, through only one sub-nanometer graphene layer we can obtain a compact, high modulation factor (about 0.98 percent), self-intensity modulator at a high frequency (about 0.6 THz) and low threshold intensity (about 15 MW per square centimeter), and further a compact, all-optical THz wave generator by integrating the self-modulator with a THz photodiode or photonic mixer. Such a THz source is expected to have a relatively high efficiency compared with conventional sources based on optical methods. The proposed THz source can find wide applications in THz science and technology, e.g., in THz imaging, THz sensors and detectors, THz communication systems, and THz optical integrated logic circuits.
