First demonstration of active plasmonic device in true data traffic conditions: ON/OFF thermo-optic modulation using a hybrid silicon-plasmonic asymmetric MZI

Author

Kalavrouziotis, D. ; Papaioannou, S. ; Vyrsokinos, K. ; Kumar, A. ; Bozhevolnyi, S.I. ; Markey, L. ; Weeber, J.C. ; Dereux, A. ; Giannoulis, G. ; Apostolopoulos, D. ; Avramopoulos, H. ; Pleros, N.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece

fYear

2012

fDate

4-8 March 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We demonstrate the first system-level evaluation of an active plasmonic device in 10Gb/s data traffic conditions. Thermo-optic ON/OFF modulation with 3μs response time and 10mW power consumption is presented using an asymmetric MZI silicon-plasmonic gate.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; amplitude shift keying; integrated optoelectronics; optical interconnections; optical modulation; silicon-on-insulator; thermo-optical devices; ON/OFF thermo-optic modulation; Si; active plasmonic device; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; hybrid asymmetric MZI silicon-plasmonic gate; power consumption; response time; system-level evaluation; true data traffic conditions; Modulation; Optical interferometry; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA

ISSN

pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0262-3

Type

conf

Filename

6192156