Electro-optic modulators based on hybrid plasmonic micro-ring-disk resonators with femtojoule switching energy

Data di pubblicazione: 22 Nov 2016

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Autori: Dimitrios Zografopoulos, Mohamed A. Swillam, Romeo Beccherelli

An electro-optic modulator based on hybrid plasmonic micro-ring-disks with submicron radii is designed and rigorously investigated via the finite-element method. The device is based on the conductor-gap-silicon hybrid plasmonic platform and utilizes an embedded electro-optical polymer to control the resonant wavelengths of micro-ring-disk resonators. Such elements combine the easier fabrication of microdisks with the lower capacitance of microring resonators and provide high modulation depths, low insertion losses, and energy consumption around 1 fJ/bit. Finally, an add-drop filter configured in a switching matrix is presented and its performance is preliminary assessed.

Editore
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Fonte
Applied Physics A
Volume
122
Fascicolo
12
Citazioni
15
ID archivio
557054b887bbe0a78b6df75282f396f3
Riferimenti
Volume: 122 Issue: 12 Pages: 1-8