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Plasmonic IQ modulators with attojoule per bit electrical energy consumption.

  • Heni W Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (IEF), ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland. wheni@ethz.ch.
  • Fedoryshyn Y Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (IEF), ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Baeuerle B Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (IEF), ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Josten A Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (IEF), ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Hoessbacher CB Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (IEF), ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Messner A Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (IEF), ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Haffner C Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (IEF), ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Watanabe T Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (IEF), ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Salamin Y Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (IEF), ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Koch U Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (IEF), ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Elder DL Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195-1700, USA.
  • Dalton LR Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195-1700, USA.
  • Leuthold J Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (IEF), ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland. leuthold@ethz.ch.
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  • 2019-04-14
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  • Nature communications. - 2019
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Physics and Astronomy
General Chemistry
English Coherent optical communications provides the largest data transmission capacity with the highest spectral efficiency and therefore has a remarkable potential to satisfy today's ever-growing bandwidth demands. It relies on so-called in-phase/quadrature (IQ) electro-optic modulators that encode information on both the amplitude and the phase of light. Ideally, such IQ modulators should offer energy-efficient operation and a most compact footprint, which would allow high-density integration and high spatial parallelism. Here, we present compact IQ modulators with an active section occupying a footprint of 4 × 25 µm × 3 µm, fabricated on the silicon platform and operated with sub-1-V driving electronics. The devices exhibit low electrical energy consumptions of only 0.07 fJ bit-1 at 50 Gbit s-1, 0.3 fJ bit-1 at 200 Gbit s-1, and 2 fJ bit-1 at 400 Gbit s-1. Such IQ modulators may pave the way for application of IQ modulators in long-haul and short-haul communications alike.
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