A dynamically tunable plasmonic multi-functional device based on graphene nano-sheet pair arrays

• Published in: Optics communications 2018-05, Vol.415, p.130-134
• Main Authors: Wang, Wei, Meng, Zhao, Liang, Ruisheng, Chen, Shijie, Ding, Li, Wang, Faqiang, Liu, Hongzhan, Meng, Hongyun, Wei, Zhongchao
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Plasmonics; Sensors; Subwavelength structures; Tunable filters
• ISSN: 0030-4018; 1873-0310
• DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2018.01.049

Dynamically tunable plasmonic multi-functional is particularly desirable for various nanotechnological applications. In this paper, graphene nano-sheet pair arrays separated by a substrate, which can act as a dynamically tunable plasmonic band stop filter with transmission at resonance wavelength lower than 1%, a high sensitivity refractive index sensor with sensitivity up to 4879 nm/RIU, figure of merit of 40.66 and a two circuit optical switch with the modulation depth up to 0.998, are proposed and numerically investigated. These excellent optical performances are calculated by using FDTD numerical modeling and theoretical deduction. Simulation results show that a slight variation of chemical potential of the graphene nano-sheet can achieve significant resonance wavelength shifts. In additional, the resonance wavelength and transmission of this plasmonic device can be tuned easily by two voltages owing to the simple patterned graphene. These studies may have great potential in fabrication of multi-functional and dynamically tunable optoelectronic integrated devices. •A multi-functional optical devices on a fixed structure based graphene was designed.•The optical performances of optical devices are excellent in our work.•The optical performances are tuned easily owing to simple patterned graphene.