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Terahertz polarisation modulator by electronic control of graphene loaded chiral metamaterial device

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  • Nikita W. Almond
  • Stephen J. Kindness
  • Wladislaw Michailow
  • Binbin Wei
  • Lukas Jakob
  • Philipp Braeuninger-Weimer
  • Stephan Hofmann
  • Harvey E. Beere
  • David A. Ritchie
  • Riccardo Degl'Innocenti
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Publication date1/01/2019
Host publicationEuropean Quantum Electronics Conference, EQEC_2019
PublisherOSA - The Optical Society
Volume2019
ISBN (electronic)9781557528209
<mark>Original language</mark>English
EventEuropean Quantum Electronics Conference, EQEC_2019 - Munich, United Kingdom
Duration: 23/06/201927/06/2019

Conference

ConferenceEuropean Quantum Electronics Conference, EQEC_2019
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityMunich
Period23/06/1927/06/19

Publication series

NameOptics InfoBase Conference Papers
VolumePart F143-EQEC 2019

Conference

ConferenceEuropean Quantum Electronics Conference, EQEC_2019
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityMunich
Period23/06/1927/06/19

Abstract

Terahertz (THz) science and technology has experienced tremendous progress in recent years, such as in spectroscopy, imaging, pharmaceutical research [1] and wireless communications. These applications require electrically tuneable devices to modulate the THz properties, including the amplitude, frequency and polarization. The integration of resonant plasmonic/metamaterial devices with graphene, has proved a successful route for the realisation of fast reconfigurable, efficient THz optoelectronic devices [2], via electrical tuning of graphene integrated with plasmonic resonant structures. An active THz modulator is presented based on a chiral metamaterial array containing metallic features, loaded with graphene. The device makes use of an electromagnetically induced transparency analogue produced via the capacitive coupling of bright and dark resonators, the latter actively damped with graphene, exploited for frequency modulation in Ref. [2]. The active area is 1.2 x 1.2 mm, consisting of a 2D chiral metamaterial array comprising 27 x 27 unit cells, shown in Fig. 1a. The resonators were defined using electron-beam lithography, and thermal evaporation of Ti/Au (10/70nm). These features were deposited on top of a 300 nm insulating layer of SiO2 on a boron p-doped silicon substrate. Chemical vapour deposition grown graphene was defined into 3.25 x 3.25 µm2 patches through e-beam lithography.