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CMOS plasmonics in WDM data transmission: 200 Gb/s (8 × 25Gb/s) transmission over aluminum plasmonic waveguides

Alain DereuxS. PapaioannouNikos PlerosLaurent MarkeyDimitris TsiokosBartos ChmielakCaroline PorschatisAnna Lena GieseckeA. ManolisJ.-c. WeeberGeorge Dabos

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Materials sciencebusiness.industry02 engineering and technology021001 nanoscience & nanotechnologySurface plasmon polaritonAtomic and Molecular Physics and Opticslaw.invention020210 optoelectronics & photonicsOpticsTransmission (telecommunications)CMOSlawWavelength-division multiplexing0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringSignal integrity0210 nano-technologybusinessWaveguidePlasmonData transmission

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We demonstrate wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) 200 Gb/s (8 × 25 Gb/s) data transmission over 100 μm long aluminum (Al) surface-plasmon-polariton (SPP) waveguides on a Si3N4 waveguide platform at telecom wavelengths. The Al SPP waveguide was evaluated in terms of signal integrity by performing bit-error-rate (BER) measurements that revealed error-free operation for all eight 25 Gb/s non-return-to-zero (NRZ) modulated data channels with power penalties not exceeding 0.2 dB at 10−9. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of WDM enabled data transmission over complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) SPP waveguides fueling future development of CMOS compatible plasmo-photonic devices for on-chip optical interconnections.

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2018-05-01Optics Express
https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.26.012469