21 research outputs found
Highly tunable hybrid metamaterials employing split-ring resonators strongly coupled to graphene surface plasmons
Metamaterials and plasmonics are powerful tools for unconventional
manipulation and harnessing of light. Metamaterials can be engineered to
possess intriguing properties lacking in natural materials, such as negative
refractive index. Plasmonics offers capabilities to confine light in
subwavelength dimensions and to enhance light-matter interactions.
Recently,graphene-based plasmonics has revealed emerging technological
potential as it features large tunability, higher field-confinement and lower
loss compared to metal-based plasmonics. Here,we introduce hybrid structures
comprising graphene plasmonic resonators efficiently coupled to conventional
split-ring resonators, thus demonstrating a type of highly tunable
metamaterial, where the interaction between the two resonances reaches the
strong-coupling regime. Such hybrid metamaterials are employed as high-speed
THz modulators, exhibiting over 60% transmission modulation and operating speed
in excess of 40 MHz. This device concept also provides a platform for exploring
cavity-enhanced light-matter interactions and optical processes in graphene
plasmonic structures for applications including sensing, photo-detection and
nonlinear frequency generation
InGaAs/AlInGaAs THz quantum cascade lasers operating up to 195 K in strong magnetic field
Terahertz quantum cascade lasers based on InGaAs wells and quaternary AlInGaAs barriers were measured in magnetic field. This study was carried out on a four-quantum-well active-region design with photon energy of 14.3 meV processed with both Au and Cu waveguides. The heterostructure operates up to 148 K at B = 0 T in a Cu waveguide. The complete magneto-spectroscopic study allowed the comparison of emission and transport data. Increasing the magnetic field, the low effective mass of the InGaAs wells allowed us to reach the very strong confinement regime. At B = 12 T, where the cyclotron transition is almost resonant with the LO-phonon, we recorded a maximum operating temperature of 195 K for the devices with Cu waveguide. Additional lasing at 5.9 meV was detected for magnetic fields between 7.3 and 7.7 T.ISSN:1367-263
Enhanced current injection from a quantum well to a quantum dash in magnetic field
Resonant tunneling injection is a key ingredient in achieving population inversion in a putative quantum dot cascade laser. In a quantum dot based structure, such resonant current requires a matching of the wavefunction shape in k-space between the injector and the quantum dot. We show experimentally that the injection into an excited state of a dash structure can be enhanced tenfold by an in-plane magnetic field that shifts the injector distribution in k-space. These experiments, performed on resonant tunneling diode structures, show unambiguously resonant tunneling into an ensemble of InAs dashes grown between two AlInAs barrier layers. They also show that interface roughness scattering can enhance the tunneling current.ISSN:1367-263
Supplement 1: Electrically tunable graphene anti-dot array terahertz plasmonic crystals exhibiting multi-band resonances
Originally published in Optica on 20 February 2015 (optica-2-2-135
Gate and magnetic field tunable ultrastrong coupling between a magnetoplasmon and the optical mode of an LC cavity
The coupling between the optical mode of an LC cavity and a magnetoplasmon is studied by terahertz transmission spectroscopy. The magnetoplasmons are created by etching a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas into stripes. As a result, we identify three different regimes, depending on the plasmon frequency relative to the cavity frequency. We find a significant coupling to the cyclotron dispersion even in presence of screening of the electric field by the plasmon.ISSN:1098-0121ISSN:0163-1829ISSN:1550-235XISSN:0556-2805ISSN:2469-9969ISSN:1095-379