Data Transmission and Thermo-Optic Tuning Performance of Dielectric-Loaded Plasmonic Structures Hetero-Integrated on a Silicon Chip

Author

Giannoulis, Giannis ; Kalavrouziotis, Dimitrios ; Apostolopoulos, Dimitrios ; Papaioannou, Sotirios ; Kumar, Ashwani ; Bozhevolnyi, Sergey ; Markey, Laurent ; Hassan, Karim ; Weeber, Jaen-Claude ; Dereux, Alain ; Baus, Matthias ; Karl, Matthias ; Tekin, T

Author_Institution

Photonics Res. Commun. Lab., Nat. Technol. Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece

Volume

24

Issue

5

fYear

2012

fDate

3/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

374

Lastpage

376

Abstract

We demonstrate experimental evidence of the data capture and the low-energy thermo-optic tuning credentials of dielectric-loaded plasmonic structures integrated on a silicon chip. We show 7-nm thermo-optical tuning of a plasmonic racetrack-resonator with less than 3.3 mW required electrical power and verify error-free 10-Gb/s transmission through a 60-μm-long dielectric-loaded plasmonic waveguide.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; optical resonators; optical tuning; plasmonics; silicon; thermo-optical devices; Si; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; data capture; data transmission; dielectric-loaded plasmonic structures; dielectric-loaded plasmonic waveguide; low-energy thermo-optic tuning credentials; plasmonic racetrack-resonator; silicon chip; size 60 mum; thermo-optic tuning performance; Couplings; Loss measurement; Optical ring resonators; Plasmons; Propagation losses; Silicon; Tuning; Data transmission; dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton waveguides; plasmonics; silicon photonics; thermo-optic switching;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2011.2177964

Filename

6094169