A terahertz graphene tunable absorber consisting of monolayer graphene on a dielectric grating and a substrate separated by a waveguide layer is designed and investigated. The absorber exhibits polarization-independent absorption enhancement at resonance for fully conical light incidence, which is attributed to the simultaneous excitation of two identical guided modes in the waveguide layer. Moreover, the absorber possesses an ultranarrow absorption profile with an ultrahigh quality factor. To intuitively confirm the potential physical mechanism of such phenomena, the electromagnetic field distributions for both polarized light are described. Finally, the influences of Fermi level and relaxation time on the absorption properties are investigated, which present the flexible tunability of the proposed device. It is believed that the conclusions will enable the development of optoelectronic devices by simply combining graphene with a guided-mode resonance structure.
The absorption enhancement in the graphene monolayer for the terahertz frequency is investigated. This is achieved by placing the graphene monolayer on a dielectric grating backed with a reduced Bragg grating and a metallic mirror. Complete absorption is achieved at resonance and the absorption spectra exhibit an ultranarrow shape, which is attributed to the combined effects of the guided mode resonance with dielectric grating and the photonic bandgap with Bragg grating. Moreover, the designed graphene absorber possesses antenna-like response and thus can be used as a thermal emitter with high directionality. To disclose the physical origins of such absorption effects, the electric-field intensity distributions are investigated. Furthermore, the peak position of the absorption spectra can be tuned by only a change in the Fermi level. Our results may potentially be used for developing the next-generation graphene-based optoelectronic devices.
The tunable absorption effects with cascaded graphene nanoribbon arrays are investigated. It is achieved by cascading two pairs of graphene nanoribbon arrays-dielectric spacers on a metallic mirror. It is found that dual-band and a broadband absorbers can be easily achieved by tuning the geometry parameters of the structure. The designed dual-band graphene absorber exhibits near-unity absorption at two resonant frequencies and the broadband absorber shows high absorption over a wide frequencies range. Moreover, the absorption performance can not only be tuned in wide frequency ranges by changing the Fermi level, but also be maintained over a large incident angle range. It is believed that the concepts can be expanded to design multiband and more broadband absorbers by cascading many pairs of graphene nanoribbon arrays-dielectric spacers.
A graphene-based tunable absorber consisting of a graphene monolayer on a dielectric grating and dielectric gap layer backed with a substrate is proposed and investigated. The absorber exhibits higher than 80% absorption at resonance, which is attributed to the guided mode resonances (GMRs) of a simple one-dimensional dielectric grating. Furthermore, the ultranarrow spectrum and antenna-like response make it able to be used as a thermal emitter with high directionality. The physical mechanism of such perfect absorption performance is disclosed by the illustrated electric field distributions. Lastly, the influence of Fermi level and relaxation time on the absorption spectra is investigated, which will benefit the design of graphene-based devices. The results indicate that it will promote the development of graphene-based tunable devices when combining graphene with general GMRs effect.
Beam splitters are widely used in various optical modern systems for separating optical wave into different directions. We have proposed a novel slanted grating for beam splitter at the central wavelength of 1550nm, which can be used in the optical communication. With the simulated annealing algorithm, beam splitter slanted grating can be optimized by using the rigorous coupled wave analysis (RCWA). The diffraction process can be analyzed by the simplified modal method. The simplified modal method, without complicated calculation, reduces the difficult diffraction process into a vividly and physical modal. We have derived an analytical expression which can provide an insightful physical description of the simplified modal method for the slanted grating. Compared with the rectangular grating, the slanted grating has the asymmetric physical structure. Therefore, the odd grating mode can also be excited in the slanted grating under normal incidence. The odd grating mode, which only exists in the asymmetric structure, plays the role of breaking the symmetric field distribution in the output plane. The physical analytical expression of mode conversion and coupling for the slanted grating can be obtained to interpretation the asymmetric field distribution. Numerical results obtained by the rigorous coupled wave analysis verified the validity of the simplified modal method. We expect the modal method for the slanted grating set forth in this work should be helpful for the tremendous potential application of the slanted grating.
This paper will report our recent works on fabrication, evaluation, and applications of gratings. We are using the Dammann parallel laser writing facility for fabrication of gratings. High-efficiency reflective gratings and large-sized grating are fabricated. We have fabricated high-power reflective laser vortex grating with expectation of a new laser drilling effect for laser fusion in the future, which is just evaluated by our developed method. These gratings are essential elements for high-power laser systems and other high-demanding metrology applications.
Beam splitters are important optical components. In this paper, reflective 1×2 and 1×3 beam splitters based on metaldielectric gratings are designed at wavelength of 1064 nm for TE polarization. Alumina, silver, alumina and fused silica films are coated on substrate in sequence. On the top fused silica film, grating with rectangular grooves are etched. Rigorous coupled-wave analysis (RCWA) and simulated annealing (SA) algorithm are employed to optimize grating parameters such as period, depth, thickness of connecting layer and incident angle. An optimized 1×2 beam splitter can achieve perpendicular beam splitting with diffraction efficiency of 49.2% at the -1st order and 49.1% at the 0th order for incident angle of 30°. When incident angle is 5°, the diffraction efficiencies of the optimized 1×3 beam splitter are 32.66% at the -1st order, 32.71% at the 0th order and 32.72% at the 1st order. To guide the fabrication and operation of beam splitters, the tolerance of grating period, depth, thickness of connecting layer are calculated. The optimized 1×2 and 1×3 beam splitters exhibit high efficiencies and uniformity, which should be useful in applications.
The enhancement of absorption in thin-film amorphous silicon solar cell based on guided mode resonance is theoretically investigated. This is achieved by patterning a grating with waveguide layer in the absorbing layer and an antireflective layer on the top. The optimized grating parameters are obtained by use of rigorous coupled-wave analysis and the simulated annealing algorithm in the visible region. The absorption at normal incidence is higher than 50% in the wavelength range 300-660 nm, and the peak absorption is higher than 95% for both TE and TM polarization. We studied the angle dependence of the integrated absorption spectrum in solar cell structures. The integrated absorption for TM polarization is larger than TE polarization in the angular range of 0-88o. In general, the averaged integrated absorption decreases as the incident angle increasing, but it is higher than 60% in the range 0-66o. So it is very weakly dependent on the angle of incidence. A physical understanding of enhanced absorption based on guided mode resonance effect is presented. It is found that the effect can effectively trap light in the absorber layer and enhance absorption in the active layer. Double-groove grating structure is also discussed for the sake of reducing reflection and enhancing absorption. The designed solar cells have high integrated absorption and are weakly dependent on incident angle, which should be of highly practical significance.
The enhancement of absorption in a thin-film amorphous silicon solar cell based on guided mode resonance is theoretically investigated. This is achieved by patterning a single- or double-groove grating with a waveguide layer as the absorbing layer. The optimized grating parameters are obtained by use of rigorous coupled-wave analysis and the simulated annealing algorithm. The averaged integrated absorptions are weakly dependent on the angle of incidence in both grating structures. It is shown the optimized solar cell with double-groove grating has better optical performance than single-groove grating structures. The qualitative understanding of enhanced absorption based on guided-mode resonance and double-groove grating structure is presented. An antireflective grating structure is proposed and discussed for reducing reflection and enhancing absorption. The solar cell with antireflective grating has much better performance than those without an antireflective grating. The designed solar cells have high integrated absorption and are weakly dependent on the incident angle, which should be highly interesting for practical application.
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