Title :
Analysis of plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator with metal taper structure embedded in FTC-EO polymer
Author :
oNaoya Hojo;Tomohiro Amemiya;Zhichen Gu;Nobuhiko Nishiyama;Shigehisa Arai
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Abstract :
We analyzed a Mach-Zehnder plasmonic modulator with metal-insulator-metal structure embedded by the Furan-Thiophene Chromophore. π-phase shift between two Mach-Zehnder arms can be obtained with a device length of 6.5 μm and the figure of merit of 3.1.
Keywords :
"Plasmons","Optical waveguides","Silicon","Modulation","Metals","Polymers","Couplings"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2015 11th Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2015.7376328
