Electro-optic modulation in slotted resonant photonic crystal heterostructures

Jan Hendrik Wuelbern; Jan Hampe; Alexander Petrov; Manfred Eich; Jingdong Luo; Alex K. -Y. Jen; Andrea Di Falco; Thomas F. Krauss; Juergen Bruns

doi:10.1063/1.3156033

Electro-optic modulation in slotted resonant photonic crystal heterostructures

Jan Hendrik Wuelbern, Jan Hampe, Alexander Petrov, Manfred Eich, Jingdong Luo, Alex K. -Y. Jen, Andrea Di Falco, Thomas F. Krauss, Juergen Bruns

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Abstract

Two dimensional photonic crystal waveguides in high index materials enable integrated optical devices with an extremely small geometrical footprint on the scale of micrometers. Slotted waveguides are based on the guiding of light in low refractive index materials and a field enhancement in this particular region of the device. In this letter we experimentally demonstrate electro-optic modulation in slotted photonic crystal waveguides based on silicon-on-insulator substrates covered and infiltrated with nonlinear optical polymers. A photonic crystal heterostructure is used to create a cavity, while simultaneously serving as an electrical connection from the slot to the metal electrodes that carry the modulation signal.

Original language	English
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	94
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3156033
Publication status	Published - 15 Jun 2009

Keywords

electro-optical modulation
integrated optics
optical waveguides
photonic crystals
refractive index
WAVE-GUIDES
SILICON
POLYMER
LIGHT

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