• DocumentCode
    161809
  • Title

    High-speed plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator in a waveguide

  • Author

    Haffner, Christian ; Heni, Wolfgang ; Fedoryshyn, Yuriy ; Elder, D.L. ; Melikyan, Argishti ; Baeuerle, B. ; Niegemann, Jens ; Emboras, Alexandros ; Josten, A. ; Ducry, F. ; Kohl, Michael ; Dalton, L.R. ; Hillerkuss, D. ; Hafner, Christian ; Leuthold, Juer

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Electromagn. Fields, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    21-25 Sept. 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a plasmonic Mach-Zehnder-modulator with a record-small length of 10 μm. The modulator is fully integrated into a single silicon waveguide and operates at 72 Gbit s-1. A voltage-length product as low as VπL=50 ±5 Vpm is found.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; high-speed optical techniques; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; optical waveguides; silicon; SI; bit rate 72 Gbit/s; high-speed plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator; single silicon waveguide; size 10 mum; voltage-length product; Optical losses; Optical waveguides; Phase modulation; Photonics; Plasmons; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cannes
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964271
  • Filename
    6964271
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=161809