Simultaneous optical modulation and detection using graphene integrated on a silicon waveguide
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Youngblood, Nathan; Anugrah, Yoska; Ma, Rui; Koester, Steven J.; Li, Mo
- Source
- 2014 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) - Laser Science to Photonic Applications Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on. :1-2 Jun, 2014
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Graphene
Optical modulation
Logic gates
Optical device fabrication
Optical buffering
Optical interferometry
- Language
- ISSN
- 2160-8989
A dual-mode, graphene optical modulator and detector for the near-IR is demonstrated in a single device. Gate dependent photocurrent and optical transmission allow the device to operate in a highly novel mode of simultaneous optical modulation and detection.