Silicon hybrid nanoplasmonics for ultra-dense photonic integration

Abstract

Recently hybrid plasmonic waveguides have been becoming very attractive as a promising candidate to realize next-generation ultra-dense photonic integrated circuits because of the ability to achieve nano-scale confinement of light and relatively long propagation distance. Furthermore, hybrid plasmonic waveguides also offer a platform to merge photonics and electronics so that one can realize ultra-small optoelectronic integrated circuits (OEICs) for high-speed signal generation, processing as well as detection. In this paper, we gave a review for the progresses on various hybrid plasmonic waveguides as well as ultrasmall functionality devices developed recently.

Keywords

plasmonics / hybrid / silicon / nanowire / integration

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Acknowledgement

This project was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11374263), the National High-Tech R&D program of China (863 program) (No. 2011AA010301), Zhejiang Provincial Grant (No. Z201121938), the Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of China (No. 20120101110094).

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