DocumentCode
1959818
Title
Horizontal Cu/SiO2 /Si/SiO2 /Cu plasmonic waveguide components integrated in silicon photonic circuits
Author
Zhu, Shiyang ; Chee, J.Y. ; Lo, G.Q. ; Bai, P. ; Kwong, D.L.
Author_Institution
Inst. of Microelectron., A*STAR (Agency for Sci., Technol. & Res.), Singapore, Singapore
fYear
2012
fDate
4-8 March 2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
We report experimental realization of various Cu/SiO2/Si/SiO2/Cu plasmonic waveguide based building blocks, including low loss (~0.28 dB/Lim) waveguides, low loss (~0.52 dB/turn) bends, power splitters, and Mach-Zehnder interferometers with ER of ~18.7 dB. This is a significant step toward plasmonic nanocircuits on the Si platform.
Keywords
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; copper; integrated optics; nanophotonics; optical beam splitters; optical losses; optical waveguides; plasmonics; silicon; silicon compounds; Cu-SiO2-Si-SiO2-Cu; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; Si; low loss bends; low loss waveguides; nanocircuits; plasmonic nanocircuits; plasmonic waveguide components; power splitters; silicon photonic circuits; Copper; Loss measurement; Optical losses; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Propagation losses; 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
6192106
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