Active plasmonics in true data traffic applications: Thermo-optic on/off gating using a silicon-plasmonic asymmetric mach-zehnder interferometer

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1036-1038

  Kalavrouziotis, Dimitrios ^a   Papaioannou, Sotirios ^b   Vyrsokinos, Konstantinos ^c   Kumar, Ashwani ^d   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^d   Hassan, Karim ^e   Markey, Laurent ^e   Weeber, Jean Claude ^e   Dereux, Alain ^e   Giannoulis, Giannis ^a   Apostolopoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Avramopoulos, Hercules ^a   Pleros, Nikos ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Active plasmonics; dielectric loaded surface plasmon polaritons; Mach Zehnder interferometer; silicon on insulator photonics; thermo optic switch

Indexed keywords

10 GB/ S; ACTIVE PLASMONICS; ASYMMETRIC MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER; DATA TRAFFIC; PLASMONIC DEVICES; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; SILICON ON INSULATOR; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; SYSTEM LEVELS; THERMO-OPTIC SWITCH; THERMOOPTICS;

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84861179259     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2191147     Document Type: Article

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