• DocumentCode
    2259216
  • Title

    All-optical switching in SU-8 conductor-gap-dielectric plasmonic microring resonator using thermal nonlinearity

  • Author

    Perron, David ; Wu, Marcelo ; Horvath, Cameron ; Bachman, Daniel ; Van, Vien

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Efficient light-to-heat conversion due to ohmic loss in a Au/SiO2/SU-8 plasmonic microring resonator was exploited to achieve all-optical switching. We obtained 20 times larger resonance shift in the resonator over similar SU-8 dielectric microrings.
  • Keywords
    optical polymers; optical resonators; optical switches; plasmonics; SU-8 conductor-gap-dielectric plasmonic microring resonator; all-optical switching; light-to-heat conversion; ohmic loss; resonance shift; thermal nonlinearity; Gold; Nonlinear optics; Optical resonators; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Plasmons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5951418
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2259216