Fabrication of electro optical nano modulator on silicon chip

Ofer Limon, Luca Businaro, Annamaria Gerardino, Liora Bitton, Aviad Frydman, Zeev Zalevsky

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Abstract

In this paper, we present the fabrication and preliminary measurements of a novel electro optical nano modulator on silicon chip based on light scattering by a movable 50 nm charged gold colloid particle. The idea is to modulate the 1.55 μm light by electrically manipulating the highly conductive particle in a nano air gap created in a silicon waveguide to cause high scattering and absorption. With a length of 150 nm of the air gap, the expected modulation rates can exceed few GHz while being implemented on a highly dense silicon chip.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1099-1102
Number of pages4
JournalMicroelectronic Engineering
Volume86
Issue number4-6
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2009

Keywords

  • Electro optical modulator
  • Integrated optics
  • Nano particle
  • Silicon chip

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