Enhanced photodetection in graphene-integrated photonic crystal cavity

We demonstrate the controlled enhancement of photoresponsivity in a graphene photodetector by coupling to slow light modes in a long photonic crystal linear defect cavity. Near the Brillouin zone (BZ) boundary, spectral coupling of multiple cavity modes results in broad-band photocurrent enhancement...

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Main Authors: Shiue, Ren-Jye, Gan, Xuetao, Gao, Yuanda, Li, Luozhou, Yao, Xinwen, Szep, Attila, Walker, Dennis, Hone, James, Englund, Dirk Robert
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Institute of Physics (AIP) 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86399
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4363-3081
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Summary:We demonstrate the controlled enhancement of photoresponsivity in a graphene photodetector by coupling to slow light modes in a long photonic crystal linear defect cavity. Near the Brillouin zone (BZ) boundary, spectral coupling of multiple cavity modes results in broad-band photocurrent enhancement from 1530 nm to 1540 nm. Away from the BZ boundary, individual cavity resonances enhance the photocurrent eight-fold in narrow resonant peaks. Optimization of the photocurrent via critical coupling of the incident field with the graphene-cavity system is discussed. The enhanced photocurrent demonstrates the feasibility of a wavelength-scale graphene photodetector for efficient photodetection with high spectral selectivity and broadband response.