Open AccessCMOS plasmonics in WDM data transmission: 200 Gb/s (8 × 25Gb/s) transmission over aluminum plasmonic waveguides
Author(s) -
George Dabos,
Athanasios Manolis,
S. Papaioannou,
D. Tsiokos,
Laurent Markey,
Jean-Claude Weeber,
Alain Dereux,
Anna Lena Giesecke,
Caroline Porschatis,
Bartos Chmielak,
Nikos Pleros
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.26.012469
Subject(s) - optics , wavelength division multiplexing , cmos , optoelectronics , transmission (telecommunications) , plasmon , waveguide , 3d optical data storage , surface plasmon polariton , photonics , materials science , data transmission , wavelength , optical communication , surface plasmon , telecommunications , physics , computer science , electrical engineering , engineering
We demonstrate wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) 200 Gb/s (8 × 25 Gb/s) data transmission over 100 μm long aluminum (Al) surface-plasmon-polariton (SPP) waveguides on a Si 3 N 4 waveguide platform at telecom wavelengths. The Al SPP waveguide was evaluated in terms of signal integrity by performing bit-error-rate (BER) measurements that revealed error-free operation for all eight 25 Gb/s non-return-to-zero (NRZ) modulated data channels with power penalties not exceeding 0.2 dB at 10 -9 . To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of WDM enabled data transmission over complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) SPP waveguides fueling future development of CMOS compatible plasmo-photonic devices for on-chip optical interconnections.