• DocumentCode
    3204320
  • Title

    Design of plasmon waveguide with strong field confinement and low loss for nonlinearity enhancement

  • Author

    Zhou, Gan ; Wang, Tao ; Cao, Pan ; Xie, Hui ; Liu, Fangfei ; Su, Yikai

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    1-3 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    69
  • Lastpage
    71
  • Abstract
    We propose a new hybrid dielectric and plasmonic waveguide offering an ultra high nonlinear coefficient γ = 4.7 × 109 W-1 km-1 which is 4 orders larger than conventional silicon waveguide with a propagation loss of 0.036 dB/μm.
  • Keywords
    dielectric waveguides; nonlinear optics; optical design techniques; optical losses; optical waveguides; plasmonics; hybrid dielectric waveguide; nonlinear coefficient; plasmon waveguide design; propagation loss; silicon waveguide; strong field confinement; Indexes; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Polymers; Propagation losses; Silicon; Waveguide discontinuities; confinement; loss; nonlinearity; plasmon; silicon based;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2010 7th IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6344-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GROUP4.2010.5643425
  • Filename
    5643425