Abstract-Enhanced plasmonic nanofocusing of terahertz waves in tapered graphene multilayers

Weiwei Liu, Bing Wang, Shaolin Ke, Chengzhi Qin, Hua Long, Kai Wang, and Peixiang Lu
https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-24-13-14765

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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