Title :
Au and Ag nano-particle embedded plasmonic metal-slotted polymer electro-optic waveguide modulator
Author :
Kim, Seong-Ku ; Fetterman, Harold R. ; Geary, Kevin ; Berini, Pierre ; Dalton, Larry R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
A new electro-optic (EO) plasmonic metal-slotted optical waveguide (PMOW) modulator based on gold and silver metal islandized thin films is proposed and experimentally demonstrated that can be operated at both 1310 nm and 1550 nm wavelengths. The fabricated PMOWs are also able to support both TM and TE polarizations, and their characteristics of the EO PMOW modulators are discussed.
Keywords :
electro-optical modulation; nanoparticles; optical waveguides; plasmonics; silver; Ag; Au; electro-optic plasmonic metal-slotted optical waveguide modulator; gold metal; islandized thin films; nano-particle embedded plasmonic metal-slotted polymer electro-optic waveguide modulator; silver metal; wavelength 1310 nm; wavelength 1550 nm; Electrooptic modulators; Electrooptical waveguides; Films; Gold; Optical surface waves;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
