Multichannel Transmission Through a Gold Strip Plasmonic Waveguide Embedded in Cytop

Author

Banan, B. ; Hai, Mohammed Shafiqul ; Lisicka-Skrzek, E. ; Berini, Pierre ; Liboiron-Ladouceur, O.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada

Volume

5

Issue

3

fYear

2013

fDate

41426

Firstpage

2201811

Lastpage

2201811

Abstract

In this paper, we experimentally characterize a low-loss polymer-based plasmonic waveguide and present its system-level performance for transmitting multiple on-off keying modulated channels (4 × 49 Gb/s). The same waveguide also exhibits the capability of transmitting multiple differential phase shift keying modulated channels (4 × 10 Gb/s). Signal transmission has been verified through bit-error-rate measurements. The plasmonic waveguide consists of a 3.6-mm-long, 5-μm-wide, and 35-nm-thick gold strip embedded in Cytop polymer and exhibits a total optical insertion loss of approximately 13 dB at a free-space optical wavelength of 1.55 μm.

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; differential phase shift keying; error statistics; gold; optical fibre losses; optical modulation; optical polymers; optical waveguides; plasmonics; Au; Cytop polymer; bit error rate measurements; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 49 Gbit/s; differential phase shift keying modulated channels; gold strip plasmonic waveguide; low-loss polymer-based plasmonic waveguide; multichannel transmission; on-off keying modulated channels; optical insertion loss; signal transmission; size 3.6 mm; size 35 nm; size 5 mum; wavelength 1.55 mum; Gold; Optical attenuators; Optical device fabrication; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Propagation losses; Strips; Cytop; Optical interconnects; differential phase shift keying (DPSK); gold strip; long-range surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs); low-loss polymer-based waveguide; on-off keying (OOK);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1943-0655

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPHOT.2013.2267537

Filename

6527992