Title :
Metal-oxide-silicon nanophotonics: An efficient integration of plasmonic nano-slots with silicon waveguides
Author :
Delacour, Cécile ; Grosse, Philippe ; Fedeli, Jean Marc ; Chelnokov, Alexei ; Blaize, Sylvain ; Bruyant, Aurélien ; Montiel, Rafael Salas ; Lerondel, Gilles
Author_Institution :
CEA LETI, MINATEC, Grenoble, France
Abstract :
We demonstrate key elements of future plasmonic guided optics integrated with CMOS-compatible silicon photonics. Very efficient coupling is provided with metal nano-slot waveguides exhibiting unexpectedly low propagation losses and a broadband sub-50 nm optical confinement.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; light propagation; nanophotonics; optical losses; optical waveguides; plasmonics; silicon; CMOS-compatible silicon photonics; Si; metal nanoslot waveguides; metal-oxide-silicon nanophotonics; optical confinement; plasmonic guided optics; plasmonic nanoslots; propagation losses; silicon waveguides; wavelength 50 nm; Couplers; Couplings; Optical coupling; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Silicon; Slotline; co-directional couplers; integrated optics; metallic slot waveguides; plasmonics; silicon photonics; surface plasmon polariton;
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/GROUP4.2010.5643437
