Active Plasmonics in True Data Traffic Applications: Thermo-Optic On/Off Gating Using a Silicon-Plasmonic Asymmetric MachZehnder Interferometer

Dimitrios Kalavrouziotis (1) , Sotirios Papaioannou (2) , Konstantinos Vyrsokinos (2) , Ashwani Kumar (3) , Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi (3) , Karim Hassan (4) , Laurent Markey (4) , Jean-Claude Weeber (4) , Alain Dereux (4) , Giannis Giannoulis (1) , Dimitrios Apostolopoulos (1) , Hercules Avramopoul (1) , Nikos Pleros (2)

1 NTUA - National Technical University of Athens [Athens]
2 School of Informatics [Thessaloniki]
3 Univ So Denmark, Fac Engn, Inst Sensors Signals & Electrotech
4 ICB - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne

We present the first system-level demonstration of an active plasmonic device in 10-Gb/s data traffic conditions. An asymmetric silicon-plasmonic Mach-Zehnder interferometer with dielectric-loaded plasmonic waveguides serving as the electrically controlled arms, operates as thermo-optic ON/OFF gating element with 2.8-mu s response time and 10.8-mW power consumption.

Mots clés: ON-INSULATOR; SWITCH

Dimitrios Kalavrouziotis, Sotirios Papaioannou, Konstantinos Vyrsokinos, Ashwani Kumar, Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, et al.. Active Plasmonics in True Data Traffic Applications: Thermo-Optic On/Off Gating Using a Silicon-Plasmonic Asymmetric MachZehnder Interferometer. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2012, 24 (-), pp.1036-1038. ⟨10.1109/LPT.2012.2191147⟩. ⟨hal-00715917⟩