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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 21, Issue 25, Pages 30664-30673Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.030664
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- Swedish VR grant [621-2011-4620]
- AOARD
- NSFC [61178062]
- National High Technology Research and Development Program (863 Program) [2012AA030402]
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Electronics circuits keep shrinking in dimensions, as requested by Moore's law. In contrast, photonic waveguides and circuit elements still have lateral dimensions on the order of the wavelength. A key to make photonics have a microelectronics-like development is a drastic reduction of size. To achieve this, we need a low-loss nanoscale waveguide with a drastically reduced mode area and an ultra-high effective refractive index. For this purpose, we propose here several low-loss waveguide structures based on graphene nano-ribbons. An extremely small mode area (similar to 10(-7)lambda(2)(0), one order smaller than the smallest mode area of any waveguide that has ever been reported in the literature; here lambda(0) is the operating wavelength in vacuum) and an extremely large effective refractive index (several hundreds) are achieved. As a device example, a nano-ring cavity of ultrasmall size (with a diameter of similar to 10(-2)lambda(0)) is designed. Our study paves the way for future VLSI (very-large-scale integration) optoelectronics. (C)2013 Optical Society of America
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