Open Access10 Gbps Optical Signal Transmission via Long‐Range Surface Plasmon Polariton Waveguide
Author(s) -
Ju Jung Jin,
Kim Minsu,
Park Suntak,
Kim Jin Tae,
Park Seung Koo,
Lee MyungHyun
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
etri journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.295
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 2233-7326
pISSN - 1225-6463
DOI - 10.4218/etrij.07.0207.0155
Subject(s) - materials science , surface plasmon polariton , waveguide , signal (programming language) , optics , optoelectronics , transmission (telecommunications) , optical power , surface plasmon , wavelength , plasmon , insertion loss , single mode optical fiber , optical fiber , telecommunications , physics , computer science , programming language , laser
We demonstrate 10 Gbps optical signal transmission via long‐range surface plasmon polaritons (LR‐SPPs) in a very thin metal strip‐guided geometry. The LR‐SPP waveguide was fabricated as a 14 nm thick, 2.5 μm wide, and 4 cm long gold strip embedded in a polymer and pigtailed with single‐mode fibers. The total insertion loss of 16 dB was achieved at a wavelength of 1.55 μm as a carrier wave. In a 10 Gbps optical signal transmission experiment, the LR‐SPP waveguide exhibits an excellent eye opening and a 2.2 dB power penalty at 10 −12 bit error rate. We confirm, for the first time, that LR‐SPPs can efficiently transfer data signals as well as the carrier light.