Silicon photonics offers tremendous potential for inexpensive high-yield photonic-electronic
integration. Besides conventional dielectric waveguides, plasmonic structures can also be …

Subwavelength conductor-gap-silicon plasmonic waveguides along with compact S-bends
and Y-splitters were theoretically investigated and experimentally demonstrated on a silicon …

Chip-scale integration of electronics and photonics is recognized as important to the future
of information technology, as is the exploitation of the best properties of electronics …

For the development of Si-based next generation electronic-photonic integrated circuits, a
silicon optical modulator is designed based on tunable plasmonic directional couplers. The …

Optical modulators are vital for many applications, including telecommunication, data
communication, optical computing, and microwave photonic links. A compact modulator with …

In this paper, a Mach-Zehnder silicon nanoplasmonic electro-optic modulator is proposed
and theoretically analyzed. It is composed of horizontal metal-SiO_2-Si-metal plasmonic slot …

Silicon photonics enables large-scale photonic–electronic integration by leveraging highly
developed fabrication processes from the microelectronics industry. However, while a rich …

Integrated optical circuits based on silicon-on-insulator technology are likely to become the
mainstay of the photonics industry. Over recent years an impressive range of silicon-on …

Silicon-based plasmonic waveguides show high confinement well beyond the diffraction
limit. Various devices have been demonstrated to outperform their dielectric counterparts at …

Silicon photonics has been established as a mature and promising technology for
optoelectronic integrated circuits, mostly based on the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguide …