Broadband graphene electro-optic modulators with sub-wavelength thickness

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 5264-5269

  Lee, C C ^a   Suzuki, S ^b   Xie, W ^a   Schibli, T R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; LASERS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ULTRASONIC DEVICES;

ACTIVE INTERFEROMETER; DESIGN FREEDOM; ELECTRICAL BANDWIDTH; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; FLAT FREQUENCY RESPONSE; GATE VOLTAGES; HIGH REPETITION RATE; HIGH-SPEED; MODE-LOCKED LASER; PHASE DISTORTIONS; SINGLE LAYER; SUB-WAVELENGTH; ULTRA-THIN;

GRAPHENE;

GRAPHITE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GRAPHITE; INTERFEROMETRY; MICRO-ELECTRICAL-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84857599234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.005264     Document Type: Article

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