Demonstration of a Plasmonic MMI Switch in 10-Gb/s True Data Traffic Conditions

Dimitrios Kalavrouziotis (1) , Sotirios Papaioannou (2) , Konstantinos Vyrsokinos , Laurent Markey (3) , Alain Dereux (3) , Giannis Giannoulis (1) , Dimitrios Apostolopoulos (1) , Hercules Avramopoulos (1) , Nikolaos Pleros (2)

1 NTUA - National Technical University of Athens [Athens]
2 School of Informatics [Thessaloniki]
3 ICB - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne

We report the first experimental performance evaluation of a 75-mu m-long plasmonic multimode interference switch that is hetero-integrated on a silicon-on-insulator platform, operating with 10-Gb/s data signals. The switch exhibits a 2.9-mu s response time and 44.5% modulation depth, while the extinction ratio between the ports alters from 5.4 to -1.5 dB for 35-mW electrical (switching) power. Error-free performance was achieved.

Mots clés: TRANSMISSION; CHIP

Dimitrios Kalavrouziotis, Sotirios Papaioannou, Konstantinos Vyrsokinos, Laurent Markey, Alain Dereux, et al.. Demonstration of a Plasmonic MMI Switch in 10-Gb/s True Data Traffic Conditions. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2012, 24, pp.1819--1822. ⟨10.1109/LPT.2012.2216518⟩. ⟨hal-00750054⟩