Plasmonics—high-speed photonics for co-integration with electronics
Ueli Koch, Christopher Uhl, Horst Hettrich, Yuriy Fedoryshyn, David Moor, Michael Baumann, Claudia Hoessbacher, Wolfgang Heni, Benedikt Baeuerle, Bertold Ian Bitachon, Arne Josten, Masafumi Ayata, Huajun Xu, Delwin L. Elder, Larry R. Dalton, Elad Mentovich, Paraskevas Bakopoulos, Stefan Lischke, Andreas Krüger, Lars Zimmermann, D. Tsiokos, Nikos Pleros, Michael Möller, Juerg Leuthold
Abstract
Abstract New high-speed photonic technologies and co-integration with electronics are required to keep up with the demand of future optical communication systems. In this paper, plasmonics is presented as one of the most promising next-generation photonic technologies that already fulfils these requirements in proof-of-concept demonstrations. Plasmonics features not only modulators and detectors of highest speed, but also compactness, cost- and energy-efficiency, and compatibility with CMOS electronics. Recently, co-integration with electronics was demonstrated with record performances of 222 GBd in a hybrid InP electronic-plasmonic transmitter assembly and of 120 GBd with a monolithic BiCMOS electronic-plasmonic transmitter.