Title :
Design of plasmon waveguide with strong field confinement and low loss for nonlinearity enhancement
Author :
Zhou, Gan ; Wang, Tao ; Cao, Pan ; Xie, Hui ; Liu, Fangfei ; Su, Yikai
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
We propose a new hybrid dielectric and plasmonic waveguide offering an ultra high nonlinear coefficient γ = 4.7 × 109 W-1 km-1 which is 4 orders larger than conventional silicon waveguide with a propagation loss of 0.036 dB/μm.
Keywords :
dielectric waveguides; nonlinear optics; optical design techniques; optical losses; optical waveguides; plasmonics; hybrid dielectric waveguide; nonlinear coefficient; plasmon waveguide design; propagation loss; silicon waveguide; strong field confinement; Indexes; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Polymers; Propagation losses; Silicon; Waveguide discontinuities; confinement; loss; nonlinearity; plasmon; silicon based;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2010 7th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6344-2
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2010.5643425
