Title :
W-shaped Plasmon Waveguide for Silicon based Plasmonic Modulator
Author :
Arbel, David ; Orenstein, Meir
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa
Abstract :
Measurements of W-shaped metal-coated silicon plasmon waveguide exhibit confined modes in both silicon-metal wedge and air-metal V-grooves. The highly confined mode in silicon is included in design for high efficiency fast CMOS based plasmonic modulator
Keywords :
optical design techniques; optical films; optical modulation; optical waveguides; silicon; surface plasmons; CMOS based plasmonic modulator; W-shaped plasmon waveguide; air-metal V-grooves; metal-coated silicon plasmon waveguide; silicon-metal wedge; High speed optical techniques; Optical devices; Optical modulation; Optical refraction; Optical scattering; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Plasmons; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2006. LEOS 2006. 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9555-7
Electronic_ISBN :
0-7803-9555-7
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2006.279029
