Graphene-covered nanoscale waveguides: from fabrication to nonlinear spectral broadening demonstration

N. Vermeulen

doi:10.1117/12.2500537

8 October 2018 Graphene-covered nanoscale waveguides: from fabrication to nonlinear spectral broadening demonstration

N. Vermeulen

Proceedings Volume 10804, Advanced Manufacturing Technologies for Micro- and Nanosystems in Security and Defence; 108040A (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2500537
Event: SPIE Security + Defence, 2018, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

In recent years the integration of graphene on nanoscale waveguides has attracted much attention as it allows using wellestablished CMOS technology for constructing next-generation photonic integrated circuits. However, important challenges need to be overcome regarding the fabrication and patterning of graphene-covered waveguide devices. In addition, a more in-depth investigation of the fundamental optical properties of graphene-covered waveguides, and in particular their nonlinear optical characteristics, is required. The latter are promising for, amongst others, generating spectrally broadband light useful for a wide range of application domains including telecommunications and sensing. In this paper we present a novel approach for patterning graphene on top of waveguides, and provide new insights in the nonlinear optical properties of graphene-covered waveguides. The patterning approach that we developed is chemicalsfree and based on laser ablation and plasma etching, removing the graphene top layer without damaging the underlying material. Regarding graphene's nonlinear optical properties, we focus on the nonlinear-refraction process of self-phase modulation causing spectral broadening of laser pulses in graphene-covered waveguides. We show that the underlying physics is not based on refraction induced by graphene's conventional third-order susceptibility, but instead on a much more complex phenomenon that we call saturable photoexcited carrier refraction.

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N. Vermeulen "Graphene-covered nanoscale waveguides: from fabrication to nonlinear spectral broadening demonstration", Proc. SPIE 10804, Advanced Manufacturing Technologies for Micro- and Nanosystems in Security and Defence, 108040A (8 October 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2500537

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Graphene

Waveguides

Laser ablation

Refraction

Plasma etching

Silicon

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