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In this paper, an elliptical dielectric graphene-coated nanowire optical waveguide is designed. In the elliptical cylinder coordinate system, the dispersion equation is obtained by using the separation variable method with the Mathieu functions. The effective refractive indexes and the field distributions are obtained from the dispersion equation by using the numerical method, then the propagation lengths are obtained. The influence of the operating wavelength, structure parameters and the Fermi energy of graphene on the mode characteristics are investigated. What is more, the figure of merit of the first five modes are calculated too. The influence of the operating wavelength and the graphene Fermi energy on the mode characteristics of circular nanowires and that of elliptical nanowires are compared. The results show that as the operating wavelength increases from 4.3
${\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ to 8.8${\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ , the real part of the effective refractive index decreases monotonically, the propagation lengths of the fundamental mode and the 1st order modes increase, and the 2nd order modes first increase and then decrease. When changing the elliptical nanowire structure parameters—the length of semi-major axis and semi-minor axis, there are slight influence on the mode characteristics of the fundamental mode and the 1st order modes, but greater influence on those of the 2nd order modes. As the Fermi energy of graphene increases from 0.45 eV to 0.72 eV, in the first five modes, the real part of the effective refractive index decreases, the propagation lengths of the fundamental mode and the 1st order modes increase, the propagation lengths of the 2nd order modes decrease. In addition, the propagation length approaches to 2${\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ approximately. When the semi-minor axis b = 100 nm and ${E_{\rm F}} \;{\rm{ = 0}}{\rm{.5}}\;{\rm{eV}}$ , the curves of the circular nanowire (a = 100 nm) and the elliptical nanowire (a = 140 nm), the real part of the effective refractive index and propagation length with the operating wavelength and the Fermi energy of graphene are compared. Then, the advantages of elliptical nanowire over the circular nanowire are verified. The results of the separation variable method are in good agreement with the results of the finite element method. This work can provide a theoretical basis for the design, fabrication and application of optical waveguides based on graphene-coated elliptical dielectric nanowires.-
Keywords:
- graphene /
- nanowires /
- waveguides /
- separation variable method
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图 1 涂覆石墨烯的椭圆形电介质纳米线光波导的横截面示意图
Figure 1. Cross section of the optical waveguide based on graphene-coated elliptical dielectric nanowire.
图 2 在a = 110 nm, b = 80 nm,
${E_{\rm{F}}}= 0{\rm{.5\; eV}}$ 和$\lambda = 7\;{\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ 的情况下, 前五个模式对应的z方向电场分量${E_z}$ (a)—(e)与电场强度$\left| E \right|$ 分布图(f)—(j)Figure 2. The z direction electric field component
${E_z}$ (a)—(e)and electric field intensity$\left| E \right|$ (f)—(j) corresponding to the first 5 modes with a = 110 nm, b = 80 nm,${E_{\rm{F}}} = 0{\rm{.5\; eV}}$ and$\lambda = 7\;{\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ .
图 3 在a = 110 nm, b = 80 nm和
${E_{\rm{F}}} = 0{\rm{.5\; eV}}$ 的情况下, 有效折射率实部(a), 传播长度(b)和品质因数(c)与波长的关系Figure 3. Dependence of the real part of the effective refractive index (a), propagation length (b) and FOM (c) on the wavelength with a = 110 nm, b = 80 nm and
${E_{\rm{F}}} = 0{\rm{.5\; eV}}$ .
图 4 在a = 110 nm, b = 80 nm和
${E_{\rm{F}}} = 0{\rm{.5 \;eV}}$ 的情况下, 不同波长时Mode 5的电场强度$\left| E \right|$ 分布图 (a)$\lambda = 5{\rm{.0}}\;{\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ ; (b)$\lambda = {\rm{7}}{\rm{.5}}\;{\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ ; (c)$\lambda = {\rm{8}}{\rm{.5}}\;{\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ Figure 4. The distribution of the electric field intensity
$\left| E \right|$ of the Mode 5 with different wavelength when a = 110 nm, b = 80 nm and${E_{\rm{F}}} = 0{\rm{.5 \;eV}}$ : (a)$\lambda = 5{\rm{.0}}\;{\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ ; (b)$\lambda = {\rm{7}}{\rm{.5}}\;{\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ ; (c)$\lambda = {\rm{8}}{\rm{.5}}\;{\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ .
图 5 b = 90 nm,
${E_{\rm{F}}} = 0{\rm{.5 \;eV}}$ 和$\lambda = 7\;{\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ 的情况下, 有效折射率实部(a), 传播长度(b)和品质因数(c)与半长轴a的关系Figure 5. The real part of the effective refractive index (a), propagation length (b) and FOM (c) as a function of semi-major axis when b = 90 nm,
${E_{\rm{F}}}= 0{\rm{.5 \;eV}}$ and$\lambda = 7\;{\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ .
图 6 在b = 80 nm,
${E_{\rm{F}}} = 0{\rm{.5 \;eV}}$ 和$\lambda = 7\;{\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ 的情况下, 半长轴长度取不同值时Mode 5的电场强度$\left| E \right|$ 分布图 (a) a = 100 nm; (b) a = 120 nm; (c) a = 140 nmFigure 6. The distribution of the electric field intensity
$\left| E \right|$ of the Mode 5 with different length of semi-major axis when b = 80 nm,${E_{\rm{F}}}= 0{\rm{.5 \;eV}}$ and$\lambda = 7\;{\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ : (a) a = 100 nm; (b) a = 120 nm; (c) a = 140 nm.
图 7 当a = 110 nm,
${E_{\rm{F}}} = 0{\rm{.5 \;eV}}$ 和$\lambda = 7\;{\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ 时, 有效折射率实部(a), 传播长度(b)和品质因数(c)与半短轴b的关系Figure 7. The real part of the effective refractive index (a), propagation length (b) and FOM (c) as a function of semi-minor axis when a = 110 nm,
${E_{\rm{F}}} = 0{\rm{.5 \;eV}}$ and${\rm{7}}\;{\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ .
图 8 在a = 110 nm,
${E_{\rm{F}}} = 0{\rm{.5 \;eV}}$ 和$\lambda = 7\;{\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ 的情况下, 半短轴长度取不同值时Mode 5的电场强度$\left| E \right|$ 分布图 (a) b = 65 nm; (b) b = 85 nm; (c) b = 105 nm.Figure 8. The distribution of the electric field intensity
$\left| E \right|$ of the Mode 5 with different length of semi-minor axis when a = 110 nm,${E_{\rm F}}= 0{\rm{.5 \;eV}}$ and$\lambda = 7\;{\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ : (a) b = 65 nm; (b) b = 85 nm; (c) b = 105 nm.
图 9 当a = 110 nm, b = 80 nm和
$\lambda = 7\;{\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ 时, 有效折射率实部(a), 传播长度(b)和品质因数(c)与费米能的关系Figure 9. The real part of the effective refractive index (a), propagation length (b) and FOM (c) as a function of Fermi energy when a = 110 nm, b = 80 nm and
$\lambda = 7\;{\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ .
图 10 在a = 110 nm, b = 80 nm和
$\lambda = 7\;{\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ 的情况下, 费米能取不同值时Mode 5的电场强度$\left| E \right|$ 分布图 (a)${E_{\rm{F}}} = 0{\rm{.5 \;eV}}$ ; (b)${E_{\rm F}} = 0{\rm{.63 \;eV}}$ ; (c)${E_{\rm F}} = 0{\rm{.72 \;eV}}$ Figure 10. The distribution of the electric field intensity
$\left| E \right|$ of the Mode 5 with different values of Fermi energy when a = 110 nm, b = 80 nm,$\lambda = 7\;{\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ : (a)${E_{\rm F}} = 0{\rm{.5 \;eV}}$ ; (b)${E_{\rm F}} = {\rm{0}}{\rm{.63 \;eV}}$ ; (c)${E_{\rm F}} = {\rm{0}}{\rm{.72 \;eV}}$ .
图 11 在
${E_{\rm{F}}}= 0{\rm{.5 \;eV}}$ 和b = 100 nm的条件下, 当a = 100和140 nm时, Mode 5 的有效折射率实部(a)和传播长度(b)随波长变化的曲线图Figure 11. When a = 100 and 140 nm, the real part of the effective refractive index (a) , propagation length (b) as a function of wavelength at
${E_{\rm{F}}} = 0{\rm{.5 \;eV}}$ and b = 100 nm.
图 12 在b = 100 nm和
$\lambda = 7\;{\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ 的条件下, 当a = 100和140 nm时, Mode 5 的有效折射率实部(a)和传播长度(b)随石墨烯费米能变化的曲线图Figure 12. When a = 100 and 140 nm, the real part of the effective refractive index (a), propagation length (b) as a function of graphene Fermi energy at b = 100 nm and
$\lambda = 7\;{\text{μ}}{\rm{m}}$ . -
[1] Gao Y X, Ren G B, Zhu B F, Liu H Q, Lian Y D, Jian S S 2014 Opt. Express 22 24322
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[3] Novoselov K S, Geim A K, Morozov S V, Jiang D, Katsnelson M I, Grigorieva I V, Dubonos S V, Firsov A A 2005 Nature 438 197
Google Scholar
[4] Ju L, Geng B S, Horng J, Girit C, Martin M, Hao Z, Bechtel H A, Liang X G, Zettl A, Shen Y R, Wang F 2011 Nature Nanotechnol. 6 630
Google Scholar
[5] Wang J C, Song C, Hang J, Hu Z D, Zhang F 2017 Opt. Express 25 23880
Google Scholar
[6] Gao Y X, Ren G B, Zhu B F, Liu H Q, Wang J, Jian S S 2014 Opt. Lett. 39 5909
Google Scholar
[7] Jablan M, Buljan M, Soljačić M 2009 Phys. Rev. B 80 245435
Google Scholar
[8] Christensen J, Manjavacas A, Thongrattanasiri S, Koppens F H, de García Abajo F J 2012 ACS Nano 6 431
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[9] Liu P H, Zhang X Z, Ma Z H, Cai W, Wang L, Xu J J 2013 Opt. Express 21 32431
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Peng Y L, Xue W R, Wei Z Z, Li C Y 2018 Acta Opt. Sin. 38 0223002
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Peng Y L, Xue W R, Wei Z Z, Li C Y 2018 Acta Phys. Sin. 67 038102
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