Graphene-based tunable plasmon induced transparency in gold strips

Abstract

Plasmon induced transparency (PIT) has been numerically investigated and experimentally realized by two parallel gold strips on graphene for the mid-infrared (MIR) range. The PIT response is realized by the weak hybridization of two bright modes of the gold strips. The response of the device is adjusted with the lengths of two strips and tuned electrically in real time by changing the Fermi level (Ef) of the graphene. Ef is changed to tune the resonance frequency of the transparency window. A top gating is used to achieve high tunability and a 263 nm shift is obtained by changing the gate voltage from -0.6 V to 2.4 V. The spectral contrast ratio of our devices is up to 82%.