Slow light modulator using semiconductor metamaterial

Zohreh Vafapour

doi:10.1117/12.2292259

23 February 2018 Slow light modulator using semiconductor metamaterial

Zohreh Vafapour

Proceedings Volume 10535, Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXII; 105352A (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2292259
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

A tunable slow light thermal modulator using 2D semiconductor metamaterial is presented and investigated. We have designed and simulated a terahertz (THz) semiconductor metamaterial (MM) waveguide system; The simulation results show the spectral properties and the group delay of the proposed 2D metamaterial can be tuned by adjusting temperature and the semiconductor used in the waveguide. Our calculations exhibit a significant slow-light effect, based on electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) effect. By appropriately adjusting the distance between the sub radiant and supper radiant modes, a flat band corresponding to nearly constant group delay (of order of 71) over a narrow bandwidth of THz regime can be achieved. Our analytical results show that the group velocity dispersion (GVD) parameter can reach zero. The simulation results show the incident pulse can be slowed down without distortion owing to the low group velocity dispersion (LGVD). The outstanding result is that, the 2D semiconductor metamaterial is in a high decrease of the group velocity and therefore slow light applications. The proposed compact slow light thermal modulator can avoid the distortion of signal pulse, and thus may find potential applications in slow-light and thermal modulator devices and thermal applications.

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Zohreh Vafapour "Slow light modulator using semiconductor metamaterial", Proc. SPIE 10535, Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXII, 105352A (23 February 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2292259

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