4 January 2021 Microfiber thermo-optic modulator based on reduced graphene oxide film
Pengyu Liu, Guoying Feng, YuKuan Ma, Ze Wang, Hao Zhou
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Abstract

We investigate a modulator based on reduced graphene oxide (RGO) thermal conductive film and in-fiber optical Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI). MZI is fabricated by stretching single-mode fiber by high-temperature heating. The cone region of MZI is coated with RGO thermal conductive film, which is heated by electrothermal effect through silver electrodes. The heating of the heat-conducting film changes the effective refractive index of the optical fiber, which leads to a phase difference of MZI. Five channels are formed across C- and L-bands. The maximum shift of interference peak spectrum is more than 2 nm. Meanwhile, the device has a modulation phase shift with a nearly linear slope of 0.007  π  /  mW near the wavelength of 1555 nm, and an extinction ratio of 4 dB for optical switching with a rise (fall) time of 80 ms (70 ms) is achieved. The high-density integration and all-fiber structure enable the proposed device to have great potential in the miniaturization of optical devices.

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Pengyu Liu, Guoying Feng, YuKuan Ma, Ze Wang, and Hao Zhou "Microfiber thermo-optic modulator based on reduced graphene oxide film," Optical Engineering 60(1), 017101 (4 January 2021). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.60.1.017101
Received: 1 August 2020; Accepted: 7 December 2020; Published: 4 January 2021
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KEYWORDS
Graphene

Modulators

Thermal optics

Oxides

Optical fibers

Modulation

Refractive index

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