Polymer Hybrid Plasmonic Waveguides and Microring Resonators

Author

Horvath, Cameron ; Bachman, Daniel ; Wu, Marcelo ; Perron, David ; Van, Vien

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Volume

23

Issue

17

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1267

Lastpage

1269

Abstract

We report the design and fabrication of hybrid plasmonic waveguides based on the Au/SiO₂/SU-8 material system. Monolithic integration of these devices with dielectric SU-8 waveguides on the same chip enabled efficient and broadband coupling between photonic and plasmonic devices to be achieved. Compact hybrid plasmonic microring resonators were also demonstrated with high intrinsic Q-factors close to 300.

Keywords

Q-factor; gold; integrated optics; micro-optomechanical devices; micromechanical resonators; optical design techniques; optical fabrication; optical polymers; optical resonators; optical waveguides; plasmonics; silicon compounds; Au-SiO₂; broadband coupling; compact hybrid plasmonic microring resonators; dielectric waveguides; intrinsic Q-factors; monolithic integration; polymer hybrid plasmonic waveguides; Couplings; Dielectrics; Gold; Optical device fabrication; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Conductor-gap-dielectric waveguides; hybrid plasmonic waveguides; microring resonators; surface plasmons;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2011.2159784

Filename

5887388