DocumentCode
3700982
Title
Ultra-compact plasmonic IQ-modulator
Author
C. Haffner;W. Heni;Y. Fedoryshyn;B. Baeuerle;A. Josten;Y. Salamin;R. Bonjour;C. Hoessbacher;A. Emboras;D. L. Elder;P. Leuchtmann;D. Hillerkuss;L. R. Dalton;C. Hafner;J. Leuthold
Author_Institution
ETH Zurich, Institute of Electromagnetic Fields, Zurich, Switzerland
fYear
2015
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
Plasmonic IQ-modulators with a record small footprint are demonstrated to operate up to 72 GBd. The devices have shown the ability to encode QPSK and 16-QAM modulation formats with power consumption as low as 27 fJ/bit at 18 GBd-16QAM.
Keywords
"Plasmons","Phase shift keying","Optical modulation","Silicon","Photonics","Nonlinear optics"
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341676
Filename
7341676
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