Miniaturization of a conventional spectrometer is challenging because of the tradeoffs of size, cost, signal-to-noise ratio, and spectral resolution, etc. Here, a new type of miniaturized infrared spectrometer based on the integration of tunable graphene plasmonic filters and infrared detectors is proposed. The transmittance spectrum of a graphene plasmonic filter can be tuned by varying the Fermi energy of the graphene, allowing light incident on the graphene plasmonic filter to be dynamically modulated in a way that encodes its spectral information in the receiving infrared detector.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe spin Hall effect of light (SHEL), as a photonic analogue of the spin Hall effect, has been widely studied for manipulating spin-polarized photons and precision metrology. In this work, a physical model is established to reveal the impact of the interface pitch angle on the SHEL accompanied by the Imbert-Fedorov angular shift simultaneously. Then, a modified weak measurement technique is proposed in this case to amplify the spin shift experimentally, and the results agree well with the theoretical prediction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMetasurfaces have been widely studied for manipulating light fields. In this work, a novel metasurface element is achieved with a high circular polarization amplitude conversion efficiency of 88.5% that creates an opposite phase shift ranging from -180° to 180° between incidence and reflection for different spin components.
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March 2018
Driven by huge demand for flexible optoelectronic devices, high-performance flexible transparent electrodes are continuously sought. In this work, a flexible multilayer transparent electrode with the structure of ZnO/Ag/CuSCN (ZAC) is engineered, featuring inorganic solution-processed cuprous thiocyanate (CuSCN) as a hole-transport antireflection coating. The ZAC electrode exhibits an average transmittance of 94% (discounting the substrate) in the visible range, a sheet resistance ( R) of 9.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe spin Hall effect of light (SHEL) has been widely studied for manipulating spin-polarized photons. In this Letter, we present a mechanism to tune the spin shift of the SHEL electrically at 1550 nm by means of introducing a graphene layer. The spin shift is quite sensitive to a graphene layer near the Brewster angle for horizontal polarization incidence and can be dynamically tuned by varying the Fermi energy of graphene.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe optical communication method has potential for solving the blackout problem, which is a big challenge faced in the development of aerospace. Two laser transmission systems were set up to explore the influence of the plasma and the ablation particles on the propagation of the laser. The experimental results indicate that the laser can transmit through the plasma with little attenuation.
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