High speed plasmonic modulator array enabling dense optical interconnect solutions

Opt Express. 2015 Nov 16;23(23):29746-57. doi: 10.1364/OE.23.029746.

Abstract

Plasmonic modulators might pave the way for a new generation of compact low-power high-speed optoelectronic devices. We introduce an extremely compact transmitter based on plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulators offering a capacity of 4 × 36 Gbit/s on a footprint that is only limited by the size of the high-speed contact pads. The transmitter array is contacted through a multicore fiber with a channel spacing of 50 μm.