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Enhanced plasmonic nanofocusing of terahertz waves in tapered graphene multilayers

Author(s) -

Weiwei Liu,

Bing Wang,

Shaolin Ke,

Chengzhi Qin,

Hua Long,

Kai Wang,

Peixiang Lu

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

optics express

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394

H-Index - 271

ISSN - 1094-4087

DOI - 10.1364/oe.24.014765

Subject(s) - terahertz radiation , graphene , materials science , plasmon , surface plasmon polariton , optics , optoelectronics , polariton , surface plasmon , nanotechnology , physics

We investigate the plasmonic nanofocusing of terahertz waves in tapered graphene multilayers separated by dielectrics. The nanofocusing effect is significantly enhanced in the graphene multilayer taper compared with that in a single layer graphene taper due to interlayer coupling between surface plasmon polaritons. The results are optimized by choosing an appropriate layer number of graphene and the field amplitude has been enhanced by 620 folds at λ = 50 μm. Additionally, the structure can slow light to a group velocity ~1/2815 of the light speed in vacuum. Our study provides a unique approach to compress terahertz waves into deep subwavelength scale and may find great applications in terahertz nanodevices for imaging, detecting and spectroscopy.

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