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Two-Dimensional Material-Based Mode Confinement Engineering in Electro-Optic Modulators
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DOI：10.1109/JSTQE.2016.2574306.png)
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Theability to modulate light using 2-dimensional (2D) materials is fundamentally challenged by their small optical cross-section leading to miniscule modal confinements in diffraction-limited photonics despite intrinsically high electro-optic absorption modulation (EAM) potential given by their strong exciton binding energies. However the inherent polarization anisotropy in 2D materials and device tradeoffs lead to additional requirements with respect to electric field directions and modal confinement. A detailed relationship between modal confinement factor and obtainable modulation strength including definitions on bounding limits are outstanding. Here, we show that the modal confinement factor is a key parameter determining both the modulation strength and the modulator extinction ratio-to-insertion loss metric. We show that the modal confinement and hence the modulation strength of a single-layer modulated 2D material in a plasmonically confined mode is able to improve by more than 10x compared to diffraction-limited modes. Combined with the strong-index modulation of graphene, the modulation strength can be more than 2-orders of magnitude higher compared to Silicon-based EAMs. Furthermore, modal confinement was found to be synergistic with performance optimization via enhanced light-matter-interactions. These results show that there is room for scaling 2D-material EAMs with respect to modal engineering toward realizing synergistic designs leading to high-performance modulators.
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Electro-optic modulator
graphene
light-matter interaction
confinement factor
plasmonics
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