title: Plasmonic-organic hybrid (POH) modulators for OOK and BPSK signaling at 40 Gbit/s.
abstract: We report on high-speed plasmonic-organic hybrid Mach-Zehnder modulators comprising ultra-compact phase shifters with lengths as small as 19 µm. Choosing an optimum phase shifter length of 29 µm, we demonstrate 40 Gbit/s on-off keying (OOK) modulation with direct detection and a BER < 6 × 10(-4). Furthermore, we report on a 29 µm long binary-phase shift keying (BPSK) modulator and show that it operates error-free (BER < 1 × 10(-10)) at data rates up to 40 Gbit/s and with an energy consumption of 70 fJ/bit.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Melikyan
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Koehnle
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lauermann
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Palmer
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Koeber
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Muehlbrandt
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Schindler
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Elder
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wolf
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Heni
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Haffner
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fedoryshyn
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hillerkuss
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sommer
authors.forename: L R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Dalton
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Van Thourhout
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Freude
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kohl
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Leuthold
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Koos