Integrated Ferroelectric Plasmonic Optical Modulator

• DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2017.th5c.7
• Publication Date: 2017-03-21T16:17:17Z
• Authors: Andreas Messner; Felix Eltes; Ping Ma; Stefan Abel; Benedikt Baeuerle; Arne Josten; Wolfgang Heni; Daniele Caimi; Jean Fompeyrine; Juerg Leuthold
• Keywords: 0103 physical sciences; 01 natural sciences

An integrated ferroelectric plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator is demonstrated to work in a direct-detection setup with a 72 Gbit/s NRZ modulation format. The device works reliably beyond 130°C with an extinction ratio beyond 15 dB.