• DocumentCode
    3726215
  • Title

    Analysis of plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator with metal taper structure embedded in FTC-EO polymer

  • Author

    oNaoya Hojo;Tomohiro Amemiya;Zhichen Gu;Nobuhiko Nishiyama;Shigehisa Arai

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Volume
    4
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We analyzed a Mach-Zehnder plasmonic modulator with metal-insulator-metal structure embedded by the Furan-Thiophene Chromophore. π-phase shift between two Mach-Zehnder arms can be obtained with a device length of 6.5 μm and the figure of merit of 3.1.
  • Keywords
    "Plasmons","Optical waveguides","Silicon","Modulation","Metals","Polymers","Couplings"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2015 11th Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOPR.2015.7376328
  • Filename
    7376328