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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964271
