Graphene-based plasmonic metamaterial for terahertz laser transistors

Taiichi Otsuji; Stephane Albon Boubanga-Tombet; Akira Satou; Deepika Yadav; Hirokazu Fukidome; Takayuki Watanabe; Tetsuya Suemitsu; Alexander A. Dubinov; Vyacheslav V. Popov; Wojciech Knap; Valentin Kachorovskii; Koichi Narahara; Maxim Ryzhii; Vladimir Mitin; Michael S. Shur; Victor Ryzhii

doi:10.1515/nanoph-2021-0651

Graphene-based plasmonic metamaterial for terahertz laser transistors

Taiichi Otsuji, Stephane Albon Boubanga-Tombet, Akira Satou, Deepika Yadav, Hirokazu Fukidome, Takayuki Watanabe, Tetsuya Suemitsu, Alexander A. Dubinov, Vyacheslav V. Popov, Wojciech Knap, Valentin Kachorovskii, Koichi Narahara, Maxim Ryzhii, Vladimir Mitin, Michael S. Shur, Victor Ryzhii

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This paper reviews recent advances in the research and development of graphene-based plasmonic metamaterials for terahertz (THz) laser transistors. The authors' theoretical discovery on THz laser transistors in 2007 was realized as a distributed-feedback dual-gate graphene-channel field-effect transistor (DFB-DG-GFET) in 2018, demonstrating ∼0.1 μW single-mode emission at 5.2 THz and ∼80 μW amplified spontaneous 1-7.6 THz emission at 100 K. To realize room-temperature, dry-cell-battery operating intense THz lasing with fast direct modulation, various approaches based on graphene plasmonic metamaterials are investigated and introduced as real device implementations, including (i) replacement of the laser photonic cavity with plasmonic cavity enormously improving the THz photon field confinement with larger gain overlapping, (ii) introduction of THz amplification of stimulated emission via current-driven graphene Dirac plasmons (GDPs), and (iii) controlling the parity and time-reversal symmetry of GDPs enabling ultrafast direct gain-switch modulation. Possible real device structures and design constraints are discussed and addressed toward coherent light sources applicable to future 6G- and 7G-class THz wireless communication systems.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1677-1696
Number of pages	20
Journal	Nanophotonics
Volume	11
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2021-0651
Publication status	Published - 2022 Apr 1

Keywords

Dirac plasmons
current injection pumping
distributed-feedback
dual-grating-gate
graphene
instability
lasers
metamaterial
parity- and time-reversal symmetry
terahertz

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Biotechnology
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Otsuji, T., Boubanga-Tombet, S. A., Satou, A., Yadav, D., Fukidome, H., Watanabe, T., Suemitsu, T., Dubinov, A. A., Popov, V. V., Knap, W., Kachorovskii, V., Narahara, K., Ryzhii, M., Mitin, V., Shur, M. S., & Ryzhii, V. (2022). Graphene-based plasmonic metamaterial for terahertz laser transistors. Nanophotonics, 11(9), 1677-1696. https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2021-0651

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