11 July 2020 Polarization-independent absorption enhancement in graphene for light incidence in conical mounting
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Abstract

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.

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Jun Wu "Polarization-independent absorption enhancement in graphene for light incidence in conical mounting," Journal of Nanophotonics 14(3), 036005 (11 July 2020). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.14.036005
Received: 28 May 2020; Accepted: 2 July 2020; Published: 11 July 2020
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KEYWORDS
Absorption

Graphene

Dielectric polarization

Waveguides

Dielectrics

Electromagnetism

Resonance enhancement

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