Plasmonic nanophotonic modulators
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Alam, M. Z.; Lee, H. W.; Huang, Y-W.; Pala, R. A.; Thyagarajan, K.; Shirmanesh, G. K.; Sokhoyan, R.; Atwater, H. A.
- Source
- 2017 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM) Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM), 2017 IEEE. :193-194 Jul, 2017
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Plasmons
Indium tin oxide
Optical switches
Optical modulation
Silicon
Optical sensors
Plasmonics
transparent conducting oxide
indium tin oxide
modulator
silicon photonics
optical interconnect
- Language
- ISSN
- 2376-8614
Developing a compact, low power and high speed electro-optic modulator is crucial for overcoming the performance bottleneck of electronics. We review progress in chip based silicon compatible plasmonic modulator design, and discuss recent designs which have switching energy close to 1 fJ/bit.