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0.48Tb/s (12x40Gb/s) WDM transmission and high-quality thermo-optic switching in dielectric loaded plasmonics
Alain DereuxKarim HassanS. PapaioannouTolga TekinAlexandros PitilakisOdysseas TsilipakosDimitrios ApostolopoulosKonstantinos VyrsokinosM. BausJ.-c. WeeberLaurent MarkeyEmmanouil E. KriezisM. KarlSergey I. BozhevolnyiGiannis GiannoulisHercules AvramopoulosAshwani KumarNikos PlerosDimitrios Kalavrouziotissubject
Materials scienceON-CHIP02 engineering and technology01 natural sciencesOptical switchlaw.invention010309 opticsOpticslawWavelength-division multiplexing0103 physical sciencesGOLDPlasmonSCALEExtinction ratiobusiness.industryPhotonic integrated circuitCOMPONENTSTemperatureOptical DevicesSignal Processing Computer-AssistedEquipment DesignSurface Plasmon Resonance021001 nanoscience & nanotechnologySurface plasmon polaritonAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsNETWORKSEquipment Failure AnalysisTransmission (telecommunications)TelecommunicationsPOLARITON WAVE-GUIDES0210 nano-technologybusinessWaveguidedescription
We demonstrate Wavelength Division Multiplexed (WDM)-enabled transmission of 480Gb/s aggregate data traffic (12x40Gb/s) as well as high-quality 1x2 thermo-optic tuning in Dielectric-Loaded Surface Plasmon Polariton Waveguides (DLSPPWs). The WDM transmission characteristics have been verified through BER measurements by exploiting the heterointegration of a 60 mu m-long straight DLSPPW on a Silicon-on-Insulator waveguide platform, showing error-free performance for six out of the twelve channels. High-quality thermo-optic tuning has been achieved by utilizing Cycloaliphatic-Acrylate-Polymer as an efficient thermo-optic polymer loading employed in a dual-resonator DLSPPW switching structure, yielding a 9nm wavelength shift and extinction ratio values higher than 10dB at both output ports when heated to 90 degrees C. (C)2012 Optical Society of America We demonstrate Wavelength Division Multiplexed (WDM)-enabled transmission of 480Gb/s aggregate data traffic (12x40Gb/s) as well as high-quality 1x2 thermo-optic tuning in Dielectric-Loaded Surface Plasmon Polariton Waveguides (DLSPPWs). The WDM transmission characteristics have been verified through BER measurements by exploiting the heterointegration of a 60 mu m-long straight DLSPPW on a Silicon-on-Insulator waveguide platform, showing error-free performance for six out of the twelve channels. High-quality thermo-optic tuning has been achieved by utilizing Cycloaliphatic-Acrylate-Polymer as an efficient thermo-optic polymer loading employed in a dual-resonator DLSPPW switching structure, yielding a 9nm wavelength shift and extinction ratio values higher than 10dB at both output ports when heated to 90 degrees C.
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