Title :
Design of a hybrid slot plasmonic waveguide with nanoscale light confinement and its application for ultrafast all-optical switching
Author :
Zhonglai Zhang ; Jian Wang ; Chao Xiang ; Chengcheng Gui
Author_Institution :
Wuhan Nat. Lab. for Optoelectron., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
We design a novel hybrid slot plasmonic waveguide with a long propagation length of 1020 μm and a small effective mode area of 6.4×10-2 μm2. We simulate and achieve ultrafast all-optical switching using non-degenerate FWM in the waveguide.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; multiwave mixing; optical waveguides; plasmonics; hybrid slot plasmonic waveguide; nanoscale light confinement; nondegenerate FWM; ultrafast all-optical switching;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2012 Asia
Conference_Location :
Guangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6274-0