Ultracompact and Low-Power Plasmonic MZI Switch Using Cyclomer Loading

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 963-966

  Papaioannou, Sotirios ^a,b   Giannoulis, Giannis ^c   Vyrsokinos, Konstantinos ^a   Leroy, Floriane ^d   Zacharatos, Filimon ^d   Markey, Laurent ^d   Weeber, Jean Claude ^d   Dereux, Alain ^d   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^e   Prinzen, Andreas ^f   Apostolopoulos, Dimitrios ^c   Avramopoulos, Hercules ^c   Pleros, Nikos ^a,b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^f AMO GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active plasmonics; dielectric loaded surface plasmon polaritons; silicon on insulator; thermo optic switch

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; PLASMONS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; SILICON; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

ACTIVE PLASMONICS; EXTINCTION RATIOS; HYBRID SILICON; MODULATION DEPTH; NON-RETURN TO ZEROS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; THERMO-OPTIC SWITCH; YIELDING ERRORS;

LOADING;

EID: 84927597103     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2015.2404942     Document Type: Article

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