• DocumentCode
    2089250
  • Title

    Design of a hybrid slot plasmonic waveguide with nanoscale light confinement and its application for ultrafast all-optical switching

  • Author

    Zhonglai Zhang ; Jian Wang ; Chao Xiang ; Chengcheng Gui

  • Author_Institution
    Wuhan Nat. Lab. for Optoelectron., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    7-10 Nov. 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We design a novel hybrid slot plasmonic waveguide with a long propagation length of 1020 μm and a small effective mode area of 6.4×10-2 μm2. We simulate and achieve ultrafast all-optical switching using non-degenerate FWM in the waveguide.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; multiwave mixing; optical waveguides; plasmonics; hybrid slot plasmonic waveguide; nanoscale light confinement; nondegenerate FWM; ultrafast all-optical switching;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2012 Asia
  • Conference_Location
    Guangzhou
  • ISSN
    2162-108X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-6274-0
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6510616