Wang, Y;
You, JW;
Panoiu, NC;
(2023)
All-optical control of topological valley transport in graphene metasurfaces.
Optics Express
, 31
(6)
pp. 10401-10410.
10.1364/OE.484767.
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Abstract
We demonstrate that the influence of Kerr effect on valley-Hall topological transport in graphene metasurfaces can be used to implement an all-optical switch. In particular, by taking advantage of the large Kerr coefficient of graphene, the index of refraction of a topologically-protected graphene metasurface can be tuned via a pump beam, which results in an optically controllable frequency shift of the photonic bands of the metasurface. This spectral variation can in turn be readily employed to control and switch the propagation of an optical signal in certain waveguide modes of the graphene metasurface. Importantly, our theoretical and computational analysis reveals that the threshold pump power needed to optically switch ON/OFF the signal is strongly dependent on the group velocity of the pump mode, especially when the device is operated in the slow-light regime. This study could open up new routes towards active photonic nanodevices whose underlying functionality stems from their topological characteristics.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | All-optical control of topological valley transport in graphene metasurfaces |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1364/OE.484767 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.484767 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Published by Optica Publishing Group under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10167355 |
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