Surface polaritons of one-dimensional photonic crystals containing graphene monolayers

We investigated theoretically the existence of surface polaritons (SPs) at the interface of a one-dimensional photonic crystal containing graphene monolayers. It is shown that the structure has a new type of the photonic band gap in the THz region which is strictly omnidirectional for the TM-polarization and can support the SPs for both TM-polarization and TE-polarization. The results show that the characteristics of the SPs depends on the optical properties of the graphene sheets which can be controlled by a gate voltage. We plotted the electromagnetic field profiles of the SPs at the frequency range of the graphene induced band gap and a conventional Bragg gap of the structure. It is found that the SPs at the graphene induced band gap are more localized than the SPs at the Bragg gaps. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.