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The plasmons in graphene have the superior properties to metal surface plasmons, such as high field confinement, low Ohmic loss and long wave propagation, highly tunable via electrostatic. More importantly, the frequency of plasmons ranges from terahertz to infrared which indicates that graphene is an ideal candidate for terahertz plamsonics. On the other hand, the strong coupling between incident photons and plasmons in graphene can lead the optical absorption to be enhanced. However, it is difficult for light to couple directly with plasmons in graphene, for the momentum of incident photons cannot match the plasmons in graphene. A metal grating can be used to compensate for the momentum of photons so that it can match that of plasmons in graphene. In this work, we theoretically investigate the effect of plasmons on the terahertz optical absorption of graphene with grating based on finite difference time domain. A great enhancement of electric field component of light field can be obtained near the gold grating strip in the sheet of graphene. Thus, the photons, of which the momentum is compensated for by the grating, can strongly couple with plasmons in graphene. An obviously decrease of the transmission of the graphene structure can be seen at the resonant frequency. The transmission peak corresponds to the resonant frequency spliting into two peaks due to the fact that two plasmon polariton modes are formed by the coupling of photons and palsmons. So we also study the plasmon polariton modes made by coupling photon with palsmon based on the many-body self-consistent method. Two plasmon polariton modes are obtained and an obviously splitting at the resonant frequency can be seen due to the coupling between photons and plasmons. The work conduces to deepening the understanding of the photoelectric properties of graphene and the terahertz plasmonics based on graphene.
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Keywords:
- graphene /
- plasmon /
- optical absorption /
- plasmon polariton
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图 1 基于石墨烯的装置示意图(从上至下依次是金光栅/Al2O3薄膜/石墨烯/SiO2/Si; d和w分别代表光栅的周期和光栅条的宽度; 虚线框内的结构可以充当谐振腔的作用; L是谐振腔的厚度)
Figure 1. Schematic illustration of the device based on graphene. From top to bottom, there are the gold grating layer, Al2O3 dielectric medium, graphene sheet, and SiO2/Si layer. Here, d and w are respectively the period and the width of the gold strips. The structure sketched by the dotted line can be served as cavity and L is the cavity length.
图 2 (a)存在(黑色实线)和不存在(红色实线)石墨烯时的结构透射谱; (b)存在(黑色实线)和不存在(红色实线)石墨烯时的结构吸收谱
Figure 2. (a) Frequency dependence of the light transmission of the structure with (black solid line) and without graphene (red solid line); (b) frequency dependence of the light absorption of the structure with (black solid line) and without graphene (red solid line).
图 3 不同的光栅占空比
${f_0}$ 下, 在石墨烯层中入射电磁波的电场分量${E_x}$ (a) 和${E_z}$ (b)沿着x方向的分布Figure 3. Spatial distribution of the electric field
${E_x}$ (a) and${E_z}$ (b) components of light field along the x direction in graphene sheet for different factor${f_0}$ .
图 4
$n = 5$ 的腔模光子(红色虚线)和石墨烯中等离激元(红色实线)耦合形成等离极化激元模式(黑色实线)随着电子浓度的变化Figure 4. The electron density dependence of the plasmon polariton modes (black solid lines) induced by coupling between cavity photons (
$n = 5$ , red dotted lines) and plasmon modes in graphene (red solid line). -
[1] Castro Neto A H, Guinea F, Peres N M R, Novoselov K S, Geim A K 2009 Rev. Mod. Phys. 81 109
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Google Scholar
[3] Duan J H, Chen R K, Chen J N 2017 Chin. Phys. B 26 117802
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 Nat. Nanotechnol. 6 630
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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[14] Zhao C X, Xu W, Li L L, Zhang C, Peeters F M 2015 J. Appl. Phys. 117 223104
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[15] Lyaschuk Y M, Korotyeyev V V 2012 Ukr. J. Phys. Opt. 13 142
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[16] Johnson P B, Christy R W 1972 Phys. Rev. B 6 4370
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[17] Etchegoin P G, Le Ru E C, Meyer M 2006 J. Chem. Phys. 125 164705
Google Scholar
[18] Kotov O V, Lozovik Y E 2011 Phys. Lett. A 375 2573
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Google Scholar
[22] Dong H M, Li L L, Wang W Y, Zhang S H, Zhao C X, Xu W 2012 Physica E 44 1889
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[24] Chaplik A V 1972 Sov. Phys. JETP 35 395
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Google Scholar
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