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IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
卷 28, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2021.3108461
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Indium tin oxide; graphene; quantum capacitance; high-performance modulator
In this study, a high-performance electro-absorption optical modulator based on the epsilon-near-zero effect is proposed. The modulator structure, which includes graphene layers and a silicon cladding, achieves high modulation depth and low insertion loss.
A high-performance electro-absorption optical modulator based on the epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) effect is proposed. The structure consists of a waveguide with a silicon (Si) core over which a stack of graphene/HfO2/graphene/ITO/HfO2/graphene is grown, covered by a Si cladding. An external voltage is applied across the graphene layers to change the carrier concentration in the indium tin oxide (ITO) layers. Using a self-consistent theory, the required voltage to achieve the ENZ points in the ITO layers is calculated up to 3.42 V for an ITO thickness of 5 nm. The operation of the modulator is investigated using a three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, resulting in a modulation depth as high as 5.23 dB/mu m(5.36 dB/mu m) at awavelength of 1.55 mu m for the TE (TM) polarization, which ensures the polarization-insensitivity of our proposed modulator. It is also calculated that the insertion loss of the modulator is in the order of 2.5 x 10(-3) dB/mu m that yields the figure of merit(FOM) ofmore than 1800. The outstanding features of our proposed modulator are mainly attributed to using the Si cladding layer instead of metal cladding. Furthermore, in contrast to the previously studied structures with metal electrodes, graphene layers significantly reduce the insertion loss.
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