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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
