Plasmonic modulator utilizing three parallel metal–dielectric–metal waveguide directional coupler and elasto-optic effects
✍ Scribed by Ram Prakash Dwivedi; Hyun-Shik Lee; Jun-Hwa Song; Shinmo An; El-Hang Lee
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 683 KB
- Volume
- 284
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0030-4018
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✦ Synopsis
We report, for the first time, on the design of a plasmonic modulator working on the principle of the elastooptic effects in a directional coupling structure, utilizing three parallel metal-dielectric-metal waveguides. We propose to achieve the active switching of the power propagation using the elasto-optic effect and optimize the extinction ratio of the optical modulation. The device is characterized and numerically analyzed using the finite-element-method at the wavelengths of 1.55 μm. For the modulator length of 2.33 μm, the extinction ratio of the modulation is nearly 14 dB, and the calculated attenuation loss is 4.5 dB. The calculated driving voltage is 4.8 V for the given modulator. The effect of the applied voltage on the modulation is also analyzed.