Browsing by Author "Hajian, Hodjat"

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Citation - WoS: 24
Citation - Scopus: 25
Guided Plasmon Modes of a Graphene-Coated Kerr Slab
(Springer, 2016) Hajian, Hodjat; Rukhlenko, Ivan D.; Leung, P. T.; Caglayan, Humeyra; Ozbay, Ekmel
We study analytically propagating surface plasmon modes of a Kerr slab sandwiched between two graphene layers. We show that some of the modes that propagate forward at low field intensities start propagating with negative slope of dispersion and positive flux of energy (fast-light surface plasmons) when the field intensity becomes high. We also discover that our structure supports an additional branch of low-intensity fast-light guided modes. The possibility of dynamically switching between the forward and the fast-light plasmon modes by changing the intensity of the excitation light or the chemical potential of the graphene layers opens up wide opportunities for controlling light with light and electrical signals on the nanoscale.
Citation - WoS: 29
Citation - Scopus: 29
Enhanced Transmission and Beaming via a Zero-Index Photonic Crystal
(Amer Inst Physics, 2016) Hajian, Hodjat; Ozbay, Ekmel; Caglayan, Humeyra
Certain types of photonic crystals with Dirac cones at the Gamma point of their band structure have a zero effective index of refraction at Dirac cone frequency. Here, by an appropriate design of the photonic structure, we obtain a strong coupling between modes around the Dirac cone frequency of an all-dielectric zero-index photonic crystal and the guided ones supported by a photonic crystal waveguide. Consequently, we experimentally demonstrate that the presence of the zero-index photonic crystal at the inner side of the photonic crystal waveguide leads to an enhancement in the transmission of some of the guided waves passing through this hybrid system. Moreover, those electromagnetic waves extracted from the structure with enhanced transmission exhibit high directional beaming due to the presence of the zero-index photonic crystal at the outer side of the photonic crystal waveguide. Published by AIP Publishing.