Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 15, Issue 7, Pages 4393-4400Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00630
Keywords
Graphene photonics; silicon microring resonator; electro-optical modulation; high modulation depth
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- Danish Council for Independent Research [DFF-1337-00152, DFF-1335-00771]
- Danish National Research Foundation [DNRF58]
- Villum Fonden [00007261] Funding Source: researchfish
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Graphene opens up for novel optoelectronic applications thanks to its high carrier mobility, ultralarge absorption bandwidth, and extremely fast material response. In particular, the opportunity to control optoelectronic properties through tuning of the Fermi level enables electro-optical modulation, optical-optical switching, and other optoelectronics applications. However, achieving a high modulation depth remains a challenge because of the modest graphene-light interaction in the graphene-silicon devices, typically, utilizing only a monolayer or few layers of graphene. Here, we comprehensively study the interaction between graphene and a microring resonator, and its influence on the optical modulation depth. We demonstrate graphene-silicon microring devices showing a high modulation depth of 12.5 dB with a relatively low bias voltage of 8.8 V. On-off electro-optical switching with an extinction ratio of 3.8 dB is successfully demonstrated by applying a square-waveform with a 4 V peak-to-peak voltage.
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