All-plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator enabling optical high-speed communication at the microscale

Nature Photonics

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 525-528

  Haffner, C ^a   Heni, W ^a   Fedoryshyn, Y ^a   Niegemann, J ^a   Melikyan, A ^b   Elder, D L ^c   Baeuerle, B ^a   Salamin, Y ^a   Josten, A ^a   Koch, U ^a   Hoessbacher, C ^a   Ducry, F ^a   Juchli, L ^a   Emboras, A ^a   Hillerkuss, D ^a   Kohl, M ^b   Dalton, L R ^c   Hafner, C ^a   Leuthold, J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PLASMONICS;

CURRENT TECHNOLOGY; ELECTRICAL SIGNAL; HIGH-CAPACITY COMMUNICATIONS; HIGH-SPEED COMMUNICATIONS; LOW ENERGY CONSUMPTION; MACH ZEHNDER MODULATOR; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SILICON WAVEGUIDE;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 84938743111     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2015.127     Document Type: Article

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