High speed plasmonic modulator array enabling dense optical interconnect solutions

Plasmonic modulators might pave the way for a new generation of compact low-power high-speed optoelectronic devices. We introduce an extremely compact transmitter based on plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulators offering a capacity of 4 × 36 Gbit/s on a footprint that is only limited by the size of the hi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Optics express 2015-11, Vol.23 (23), p.29746-29757
Hauptverfasser: Heni, W, Hoessbacher, C, Haffner, C, Fedoryshyn, Y, Baeuerle, B, Josten, A, Hillerkuss, D, Salamin, Y, Bonjour, R, Melikyan, A, Kohl, M, Elder, D L, Dalton, L R, Hafner, C, Leuthold, J
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Zusammenfassung:Plasmonic modulators might pave the way for a new generation of compact low-power high-speed optoelectronic devices. We introduce an extremely compact transmitter based on plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulators offering a capacity of 4 × 36 Gbit/s on a footprint that is only limited by the size of the high-speed contact pads. The transmitter array is contacted through a multicore fiber with a channel spacing of 50 μm.
ISSN:1094-4087
1094-4087
DOI:10.1364/OE.23.029746