Title :
WDM switching employing a hybrid silicon-plasmonic A-MZI
Author :
Papaioannou, S. ; Giannoulis, G. ; Kalavrouziotis, D. ; Vyrsokinos, K. ; Weeber, J.-C. ; Hassan, Karim ; Markey, L. ; Dereux, A. ; Kumar, Ajit ; Bozhevolnyi, Sergei I. ; Apostolopoulos, D. ; Avramopoulos, H. ; Pleros, N.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf., Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Abstract :
We demonstrate a system-level evaluation of an A-MZI with 60μm long DLSPP active branches exhibiting more than 14dB extinction ratio. Error-free switching operation is achieved for a 4×10Gb/s incoming WDM data stream with only 13.1mW power consumption.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; elemental semiconductors; extinction coefficients; polaritons; silicon; surface plasmons; wavelength division multiplexing; DLSPP active branches; Si; WDM switching; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; dielectric loaded surface plasmon polariton; error-free switching operation; extinction ratio; hybrid silicon-plasmonic A-MZI; power 13.1 mW; power consumption; size 60 mum; system-level evaluation; Bit error rate; Couplers; Educational institutions; Erbium; Optical switches; Plasmons; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
