17 research outputs found
Prospective for graphene based thermal mid-infrared light emitting devices
Journal ArticleWe have investigated the spatial and spectral characteristics of mid-infrared thermal emission from large area Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) graphene, transferred onto SiO2/Si, and show that the emission is broadly that of a grey-body emitter, with emissivity values of approximately 2% and 6% for mono- and multilayer graphene. For the currents used, which could be sustained for over one hundred hours, the emission peaked at a wavelength of around 4 μm and covered the characteristic absorption of many important gases. A measurable modulation of thermal emission was obtained even when the drive current was modulated at frequencies up to 100 kHz. © 2014 Author(s).EPSRCEuropean Union (GOSFEL
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
Thermal emission from large area chemical vapor deposited graphene devices
Copyright © 2013 AIP PublishingThe spatial variation of thermal emission from large area graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition, transferred onto SiO2/Si substrates and fabricated into field effect transistor structures, has been investigated using infra-red microscopy. A peak in thermal emission occurs, the position of which can be altered by reversal of the current direction. The experimental results are compared with a one dimensional finite element model, which accounts for Joule heating and electrostatic effects, and it is found that the thermal emission is governed by the charge distribution in the graphene and maximum Joule heating occurs at the point of minimum charge density.This research was supported by the
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and
the European Union under the FET-open grant GOSFELEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)European Unio
Interfacing a quantum dot spin with a photonic circuit
A scalable optical quantum information processor is likely to be a waveguide
circuit with integrated sources, detectors, and either deterministic
quantum-logic or quantum memory elements. With microsecond coherence times,
ultrafast coherent control, and lifetime-limited transitions, semiconductor
quantum-dot spins are a natural choice for the static qubits. However their
integration with flying photonic qubits requires an on-chip spin-photon
interface, which presents a fundamental problem: the spin-state is measured and
controlled via circularly-polarised photons, but waveguides support only linear
polarisation. We demonstrate here a solution based on two orthogonal photonic
nanowires, in which the spin-state is mapped to a path-encoded photon, thus
providing a blue-print for a scalable spin-photon network. Furthermore, for
some devices we observe that the circular polarisation state is directly mapped
to orthogonal nanowires. This result, which is physically surprising for a
non-chiral structure, is shown to be related to the nano-positioning of the
quantum-dot with respect to the photonic circuit
Waveguide Coupled Resonance Fluorescence from On-Chip Quantum Emitter
Resonantly driven quantum emitters offer a very promising route to obtain highly coherent sources of single photons required for applications in quantum information processing (QIP). Realizing this for on-chip scalable devices would be important for scientific advances and practical applications in the field of integrated quantum optics. Here we report on-chip quantum dot (QD) resonance fluorescence (RF) efficiently coupled into a single-mode waveguide, a key component of a photonic integrated circuit, with a negligible resonant laser background and show that the QD coherence is enhanced by more than a factor of 4 compared to off-resonant excitation. Single-photon behavior is confirmed under resonant excitation, and fast fluctuating charge dynamics are revealed in autocorrelation g(2) measurements. The potential for triggered operation is verified in pulsed RF. These results pave the way to a novel class of integrated quantum-optical devices for on-chip quantum information processing with embedded resonantly driven quantum emitters
Inverse Design of Whispering-Gallery Nanolasers with Tailored Beam Shape and Polarization
Control over the shape and polarization of the beam emitted
by
a laser source is important in applications such as optical communications,
optical manipulation and high-resolution optical imaging. In this
paper, we present the inverse design of monolithic whispering-gallery
nanolasers which emit along their axial direction with a tailored
laser beam shape and polarization. We design and experimentally verify
three types of submicron cavities, each one emitting into a different
laser radiation mode: an azimuthally polarized doughnut beam, a radially
polarized doughnut beam and a linearly polarized Gaussian-like beam.
The measured output laser beams yield a field overlap with respect
to the target mode of 92%, 96%, and 85% for the azimuthal, radial,
and linearly polarized cases, respectively, thereby demonstrating
the generality of the method in the design of ultracompact lasers
with tailored beams
Optical gating of photoluminescence from color centers in hexagonal boron nitride
We report on multicolor excitation experiments with color centers in hexagonal boron nitride at cryogenic temperatures. We demonstrate controllable optical switching between bright and dark states of color centers emitting around 2 eV. Resonant, or quasi-resonant, excitation of photoluminescence also pumps the color center, via a two-photon process, into a dark state, where it becomes trapped. Repumping back into the bright state has a step-like spectrum with a defect-dependent threshold between 2.25 and 2.6 eV. This behavior is consistent with photoionization and charging between optically bright and dark states of the defect. Furthermore, a second zero phonon line, detuned by +0.4 eV, is observed in absorption with orthogonal polarization to the emission, evidencing an additional energy level in the color cente