Title :
Novel silicon hybrid plasmonic waveguide with an inverted metal nano-rib for a nanoscale light confinement
Author :
Qiangsheng Huang ; Fanglin Bao ; Yaocheng Shi ; Daoxin Dai ; Sailing He
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. for Modern Opt. Instrum., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China
Abstract :
A novel silicon hybrid plasmonic waveguide with an inverted metal nano-rib separated from a silicon-on-insulator by a low-index material. The silicon hybrid plasmonic waveguide enables a mode area of ~10-5λ2 and a 3μm-long propagation distance.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; nanophotonics; optical waveguides; plasmonics; silicon; silicon-on-insulator; Si; hybrid plasmonic waveguide; inverted metal nano-rib; low-index material; nanoscale light confinement; silicon-on-insulator; wavelength 3 mum;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2012 Asia
Conference_Location :
Guangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6274-0