Silicon-Organic Hybrid (SOH) and Plasmonic-Organic Hybrid (POH) Integration

• Published in: Journal of lightwave technology Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 256 - 268
• Main Authors: Koos, Christian, Leuthold, Juerg, Freude, Wolfgang, Kohl, Manfred, Dalton, Larry, Bogaerts, Wim, Giesecke, Anna Lena, Lauermann, Matthias, Melikyan, Argishti, Koeber, Sebastian, Wolf, Stefan, Weimann, Claudius, Muehlbrandt, Sascha, Koehnle, Kira, Pfeifle, Joerg, Hartmann, Wladislaw, Kutuvantavida, Yasar, Ummethala, Sandeep, Palmer, Robert, Korn, Dietmar, Alloatti, Luca, Schindler, Philipp Claudius, Elder, Delwin L., Wahlbrink, Thorsten, Bolten, Jens
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 15-01-2016; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Electro-optic modulators; Electrooptic modulators; Electrooptical waveguides; Energy consumption; nonlinear optical devices; photonic integrated circuits; plasmonics; Radio frequency; Silicon; silicon photonics; Electro-optic modulators; silicon photonics; plasmonics; photonic integrated circuits; nonlinear optical devices
• ISSN: 0733-8724; 1558-2213
• DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2015.2499763

Silicon photonics offers tremendous potential for inexpensive high-yield photonic-electronic integration. Besides conventional dielectric waveguides, plasmonic structures can also be efficiently realized on the silicon photonic platform, reducing device footprint by more than an order of magnitude. However, neither silicon nor metals exhibit appreciable second-order optical nonlinearities, thereby making efficient electro-optic modulators challenging to realize. These deficiencies can be overcome by the concepts of silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) and plasmonic-organic hybrid integration, which combine SOI waveguides and plasmonic nanostructures with organic electro-optic cladding materials.