Platform for enhanced light-graphene interaction length and miniaturizing fiber stereo-devices

Abstract

Sufficient light-matter interactions are important for waveguide-coupled graphene optoelectronic devices. Using a microfiber-based lab-on-a-rod technique, we present a platform for ultra-long light-graphene interaction and design graphene-integrated helical microfiber (MF) devices. Using this approach, we experimentally demonstrate an in-line stereo polarizer by wrapping an MF on a rod pretreated with a graphene sheet. The device operates as a broadband (450 nm wavelength) polarizer capable of achieving an extinction ratio (ER) as high as ~8 dB/coil in the telecommunication band. Furthermore, we extend this approach to successfully demonstrate a high-Q graphene-based single-polarization resonator, which operates with an ER of ~11 dB with excellent suppression of polarization noise. The fiber-coil resonator shows great potential for sensing applications and gyro-integration. By specializing the rod surface and coil geometry, we believe the preliminary results reported herein could contribute to advancing the research for lab-on-a-rod graphene-MF-integrated devices.