Optically Pumped Hybrid Plasmonic-Photonic Waveguide Modulator Using the VO2 Metal-Insulator Phase Transition

Optically Pumped Hybrid Plasmonic-Photonic Waveguide Modulator Using the VO2 Metal-Insulator Phase Transition

The need for ever faster and more efficient computation and communication devices has spurred interest in the field of all-optical modulators. Here a small-size hybrid plasmonic-photonic all-optical waveguide modulator utilizing a subwavelength Au&#x002F;VO<sub>2</sub> nanostructure...

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Main Authors: J. Kenji Clark, Ya-Lun Ho, Hiroaki Matsui, Jean-Jacques Delaunay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2018-01-01
Series:IEEE Photonics Journal
Subjects:
Nanophotonics
optical waveguides
plasmons
Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8219362/
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Summary:The need for ever faster and more efficient computation and communication devices has spurred interest in the field of all-optical modulators. Here a small-size hybrid plasmonic-photonic all-optical waveguide modulator utilizing a subwavelength Au&#x002F;VO<sub>2</sub> nanostructure is proposed as a high-modulation optically actuatable modulator. Using finite-difference-time-domain simulations, a nanoscale (320 nm &#x00D7; 300 nm cross-section) optimized modulator is designed. The modulator design has an extinction ratio as high as 26.85 dB&#x002F;&#x03BC;m, and a length of only 550 nm.
ISSN:1943-0655

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