Investigation of the graphene based planar plasmonic filters

We investigate numerically the edge modes supported by graphene ribbons and the planar band-stop filter consisting of a graphene ribbon lateral coupled a graphene ring resonator by using the finite-difference time-domain method. Simulation results reveal that the edge modes can enhance the electromagnetic coupling between objects indeed and this structure realizes perfect, tunable filtering effect. Successively, the channel-drop filter is constructed. Especially, the proposed structures can be designed and the size of the ring is changed by creating non-uniform conductivity patterns on monolayer graphene. Our studies will benefit the fabrication of the planar, ultra-compact devices in the mid-infrared region.