• 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