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Abstract
We numerically demonstrate a novel, to the best of our knowledge, variety of high-efficiency couplers for mid-infrared graphene surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs). The proposed couplers are composed of a dual-parabolic-tapered transition to compress and couple the SPPs of a GaAs slab waveguide into the graphene layer. The dispersion relation, field distributions, transmittance, and coupling efficiency of the couplers are systematically analyzed. It is found that broadband coupling transmission with a transmittance around 0.3 is achieved for the coupler without a silver substrate. To further reduce radiation and enhance the transmittance, a silver substrate is introduced in the proposed coupler design, which achieves a transmittance over 0.5 ranging from ${1960}$ to ${2320}\;{{\rm cm}^{ - 1}}$ with a peak transmittance of 0.75. Furthermore, both couplers with and without a silver substrate achieve a similar coupling efficiency of more than 48% in the whole wavelength range of ${1900 - 2400}\;{{\rm cm}^{ - 1}}$ and a coupling efficiency peak of over 80% around ${2120}\;{{\rm cm}^{ - 1}}$. This Letter may provide an efficient excitation method for graphene SPPs, which is of great importance for the development of various graphene plasmonic devices.
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