Title :
Low-loss plasmonic titanium nitride strip waveguides
Author :
Kinsey, Nathaniel ; Ferrera, Marcello ; Naik, Gururaj V. ; Kildishev, Alexander V. ; Shalaev, Vladimir M. ; Boltasseva, Alexandra
Author_Institution :
Birck Nanotechnol. Center, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
Abstract :
In this work we report low-loss insulator-metal-insulator plasmonic interconnects using the CMOS-compatible material titanium nitride. The mode profile shows the characteristic exponential decay of the plasmonic regime, with propagation losses as low as 0.79 dB/mm.
Keywords :
integrated optics; optical interconnections; optical losses; optical materials; optical waveguides; plasmonics; titanium compounds; CMOS-compatible material titanium nitride; TiN; characteristic exponential decay; low-loss insulator-metal-insulator plasmonic interconnects; low-loss plasmonic titanium nitride strip waveguides; mode profile; plasmonic regime; propagation losses; Materials; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Plasmons; Propagation losses; Strips; Tin;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
