2020/02/15 by Wei Huang, Xiaowei Qu, Huang, Wei +9
Engineering · #FOS: Physical sciences #Optics (physics.optics) #Photonic and Optical Devices #Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Terahertz technology and applications
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2002.06425
openalex publication_date 2020/02/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We propose a robust and broadband integrated terahertz (THz) coupler based on the in-plane surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) waveguides, conducted with the quantum coherent control -- Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage (STIRAP). Our coupler consists of two asymmetric specific curved corrugated metallic structures working as the input and output SPPs waveguides, and one straight corrugated metallic structure functioning as the middle SPPs waveguide. From the theoretical and simulated results, we demonstrate that the SPPs can be efficiently transfered from the input to the output waveguides. Our device is robust against the perturbations of geometric parameters, and meanwhile it manifests broadband performance (from 0.3 THz to 0.8 THz) with the high transmission rate over 70%. The in-plane THz coupler can largely simplify the fabrication process, which will make contribution to develop compact and robust integrated THz devices and promote the future applications in all optical network and THz communications.