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Type: 
Conference
Description: 
In this work, we present an electro-optical modulator based on electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). Our modulator employs a conductor-gap-silicon (CGS) microring resonator on each side of the input waveguide in a pushpull configuration utilizing an embedded electro-optical polymer (EOP). CGS waveguides support hybrid plasmonic modes offering a sound trade-off between mode confinement and propagation loss. The modulator is designed and analyzed using 3D finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulations. To have a high quality resonator, the rings are designed to have moderate waveguide propagation losses and a sub-micron radius of R = 805 nm. With an exact capacitance of just 1.06 fF per single microring resonator and applied voltage of 2 V, the exact energy consumption is estimated to be 4.24 fJ/bit. To the best of our knowledge, this figure represents 40% less power consumption in …
Publisher: 
International Society for Optics and Photonics
Publication date: 
24 Feb 2016
Authors: 

Aya O Zaki, Nourhan H Fouad, Dimitrios C Zografopoulos, Romeo Beccherelli, Mohamed A Swillam

Biblio References: 
Volume: 9744 Pages: 97441K
Origin: 
Optical Components and Materials XIII