Abstract

We propose several planar layouts of ultra-compact plasmonic modulators that utilize alternative plasmonic materials such as transparent conducting oxides and titanium nitride. The modulation is achieved by tuning the carrier concentration in a transparent conducting oxide layer into and out of the plasmon resonance with an applied electric field. The resonance significantly increases the absorption coefficient of the modulator, which enables larger modulation depth. We show that an extinction ratio of 46 dB/µm can be achieved, allowing for a 3-dB modulation depth in much less than one micron at the telecommunication wavelength. Our multilayer structures can be integrated with existing plasmonic and photonic waveguides as well as novel semiconductor-based hybrid photonic/electronic circuits.

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C. Huang, R. J. Lamond, S. K. Pickus, Z. R. Li, and V. J. Sorger, “A sub-λ-size modulator beyond the efficiency-loss limit,” IEEE Photon. J. 5(4), 2202411 (2013).
[Crossref]

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H. Kim, M. Osofsky, S. M. Prokes, O. J. Glembocki, and A. Piqué, “Optimization of Al-doped ZnO films for low loss plasmonic materials at telecommunication wavelengths,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 102(17), 171103 (2013).
[Crossref]

2012 (17)

M.-S. Kwon, J.-S. Shin, S.-Y. Shin, and W.-G. Lee, “Characterizations of realized metal-insulator-silicon-insulator-metal waveguides and nanochannel fabrication via insulator removal,” Opt. Express 20(20), 21875–21887 (2012).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

A. Emboras, A. Najar, S. Nambiar, P. Grosse, E. Augendre, C. Leroux, B. de Salvo, and R. E. de Lamaestre, “MNOS stack for reliable, low optical loss, Cu based CMOS plasmonic devices,” Opt. Express 20(13), 13612–13621 (2012).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

S. Zhu, G. Q. Lo, and D. L. Kwong, “Components for silicon plasmonic nanocircuits on horizontal Cu-SiO2-Si-SiO2-Cu nanoplasmonic waveguides,” Opt. Express 20, 1896–1898 (2012).
[PubMed]

J. Kim, G. Naik, N. Emani, U. Guler, and A. Boltasseva, “Plasmonic resonances in nanostructured transparent conducting oxide films,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 19, 4601907 (2012).

D. C. Look, T. C. Droubay, and S. A. Chambers, “Stable highly conductive ZnO via reduction of Zn vacancies,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 101(10), 102101 (2012).
[Crossref]

Z. Lu, W. Zhao, and K. Shi, “Ultracompact electroabsorption modulators based on tunable epsilon-near-zero-slot waveguides,” IEEE Photon. J. 4(3), 735–740 (2012).
[Crossref]

V. Babicheva and A. Lavrinenko, “Plasmonic modulator optimized by patterning of active layer and tuning permittivity,” Opt. Commun. 285(24), 5500–5507 (2012).
[Crossref]

A. Emboras, R. M. Briggs, A. Najar, S. Nambiar, C. Delacour, P. Grosse, E. Augendre, J. M. Fedeli, B. de Salvo, H. A. Atwater, and R. Espiau de Lamaestre, “Efficient coupler between silicon photonic and metal-insulator-silicon-metal plasmonic waveguides,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 101(25), 251117 (2012).
[Crossref]

V. E. Babicheva, I. V. Kulkova, R. Malureanu, K. Yvind, and A. V. Lavrinenko, “Plasmonic modulator based on gain-assisted metal–semiconductor–metal waveguide,” Photon. Nanostructures 10(4), 389–399 (2012).
[Crossref]

R. Thomas, Z. Ikonic, and R. W. Kelsall, “Electro-optic metal–insulator–semiconductor–insulator–metal Mach-Zehnder plasmonic modulator,” Photon. Nanostructures 10(1), 183–189 (2012).
[Crossref]

G. Naik, J. L. Schroeder, X. Ni, A. V. Kildishev, T. D. Sands, and A. Boltasseva, “Titanium nitride as a plasmonic material for visible and near-infrared wavelengths,” Opt. Mater. Express 2(4), 478–489 (2012).
[Crossref]

G. V. Naik, J. Liu, A. V. Kildishev, V. M. Shalaev, and A. Boltasseva, “Demonstration of Al:ZnO as a plasmonic component for near-infrared metamaterials,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 109(23), 8834–8838 (2012).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

J. B. Khurgin and A. Boltasseva, “Reflecting upon the losses in plasmonics and metamaterials,” MRS Bull. 37(08), 768–779 (2012).
[Crossref]

V. J. Sorger, R. F. Oulton, R.-M. Ma, and X. Zhang, “Toward integrated plasmonic circuits,” MRS Bull. 37(08), 728–738 (2012).
[Crossref]

J. A. Dionne and H. A. Atwater, “Plasmonics: metal-worthy methods and materials in nanophotonics,” MRS Bull. 37(08), 717–724 (2012).
[Crossref]

A. V. Krasavin and A. V. Zayats, “Photonic signal processing on electronic scales: electro-optical field-effect nanoplasmonic modulator,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 109(5), 053901 (2012).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

V. J. Sorger, N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura, R.-M. Ma, and X. Zhang, “Ultra-compact silicon nanophotonic modulator with broadband response,” Nanophotonics 1(1), 1–6 (2012).
[Crossref]

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A. Melikyan, N. Lindenmann, S. Walheim, P. M. Leufke, S. Ulrich, J. Ye, P. Vincze, H. Hahn, T. Schimmel, C. Koos, W. Freude, and J. Leuthold, “Surface plasmon polariton absorption modulator,” Opt. Express 19(9), 8855–8869 (2011).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

V. J. Sorger, Z. Ye, R. F. Oulton, Y. Wang, G. Bartal, X. Yin, and X. Zhang, “Experimental demonstration of low-loss optical waveguiding at deep sub-wavelength scales,” Nat. Commun. 2, 331 (2011).
[Crossref]

V. S. Volkov, Z. Han, M. G. Nielsen, K. Leosson, H. Keshmiri, J. Gosciniak, O. Albrektsen, and S. I. Bozhevolnyi, “Long-range dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton waveguides operating at telecommunication wavelengths,” Opt. Lett. 36(21), 4278–4280 (2011).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

G. V. Naik and A. Boltasseva, “A comparative study of semiconductor-based plasmonic metamaterials,” Metamaterials (Amst.) 5(1), 1–7 (2011).
[Crossref]

G. Naik, J. Kim, and A. Boltasseva, “Oxides and nitrides as alternative plasmonic materials in the optical range,” Opt. Mater. Express 4(6), 1090–1099 (2011).
[Crossref]

A. Boltasseva and H. A. Atwater, “Low-loss plasmonic metamaterials,” Science 331(6015), 290–291 (2011).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

M. A. Noginov, L. Gu, J. Livenere, G. Zhu, A. K. Pradhan, R. Mundle, M. Bahoura, Y. A. Barnakov, and V. A. Podolskiy, “Transparent conductive oxides: plasmonic materials for telecom wavelengths,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 99(2), 021101 (2011).
[Crossref]

S. Zhu, G. Q. Lo, and D. L. Kwong, “Electro-absorption modulation in horizontal metal-insulator-silicon-insulator-metal nanoplasmonic slot waveguides,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 99(15), 151114 (2011).
[Crossref]

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C. Delacour, S. Blaize, P. Grosse, J. M. Fedeli, A. Bruyant, R. Salas-Montiel, G. Lerondel, and A. Chelnokov, “Efficient directional coupling between silicon and copper plasmonic nanoslot waveguides: toward metal-oxide-silicon nanophotonics,” Nano Lett. 10(8), 2922–2926 (2010).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

P. R. West, S. Ishii, G. V. Naik, N. K. Emani, V. M. Shalaev, and A. Boltasseva, “Searching for better plasmonic materials,” Laser Photon. Rev. 4(6), 795–808 (2010).
[Crossref]

G. V. Naik and A. Boltasseva, “Semiconductors for plasmonics and metamaterials,” Phys. Status Solidi RRL 4(10), 295–297 (2010).
[Crossref]

E. Feigenbaum, K. Diest, and H. A. Atwater, “Unity-order index change in transparent conducting oxides at visible frequencies,” Nano Lett. 10(6), 2111–2116 (2010).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

M. L. Brongersma and V. M. Shalaev, “Applied physics. the case for plasmonics,” Science 328(5977), 440–441 (2010).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

K. F. MacDonald and N. I. Zheludev, “Active plasmonics: current status,” Laser Photon. Rev. 4(4), 562–567 (2010).
[Crossref]

2009 (4)

J. A. Dionne, K. Diest, L. A. Sweatlock, and H. A. Atwater, “PlasMOStor: a metal-oxide-Si field effect plasmonic modulator,” Nano Lett. 9(2), 897–902 (2009).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

W. Cai, J. S. White, and M. L. Brongersma, “Compact, high-speed and power-efficient electrooptic plasmonic modulators,” Nano Lett. 9(12), 4403–4411 (2009).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

P. Berini, “Long-range surface plasmon polaritons,” Adv. Opt. Photon. 1(3), 484–588 (2009).
[Crossref]

A. Kerber and E. A. Cartier, “Reliability challenges for CMOS technology qualifications with Hafnium Oxide/Titanium Nitride gate stacks,” IEEE Trans. Device Mater. Reliab. 9(2), 147–162 (2009).
[Crossref]

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M. Ferrera, L. Razzari, D. Duchesne, R. Morandotti, Z. Yang, M. Liscidini, J. E. Sipe, S. Chu, B. E. Little, and D. J. Moss, “Low-power continuous-wave nonlinear optics in doped silica glass integrated waveguide structures,” Nat. Photonics 2(12), 737–740 (2008).
[Crossref]

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C. Rhodes, S. Franzen, J.-P. Maria, M. Losego, D. N. Leonard, B. Laughlin, G. Duscher, and S. Weibel, “Surface plasmon resonance in conducting metal oxides,” J. Appl. Phys. 100(5), 054905 (2006).
[Crossref]

R. Charbonneau, C. Scales, I. Breukelaar, S. Fafard, N. Lahoud, G. Mattiussi, and P. Berini, “Passive integrated optics elements based on long-range surface plasmon polaritons,” J. Lightwave Technol. 24(1), 477–494 (2006).
[Crossref]

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T. Nikolajsen, K. Leosson, and S. I. Bozhevolnyi, “Surface plasmon polariton based modulators and switches operating at telecom wavelengths,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 85(24), 5833–5835 (2004).
[Crossref]

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B. Lamprecht, J. R. Krenn, G. Schider, H. Ditlbacher, M. Salerno, N. Felidj, A. Leitner, F. R. Aussenegg, and J. C. Weeber, “Surface plasmon propagation in microscale metal stripes,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 79(1), 51–53 (2001).
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J. Narayan, P. Tiwari, X. Chen, J. Singh, R. Chowdhury, and T. Zheleva, “Epitaxial growth of TiN films on (100) silicon substrates by laser physical vapor deposition,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 61(11), 1290–1292 (1992).
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[Crossref]

Albrektsen, O.

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J. A. Dionne and H. A. Atwater, “Plasmonics: metal-worthy methods and materials in nanophotonics,” MRS Bull. 37(08), 717–724 (2012).
[Crossref]

A. Emboras, R. M. Briggs, A. Najar, S. Nambiar, C. Delacour, P. Grosse, E. Augendre, J. M. Fedeli, B. de Salvo, H. A. Atwater, and R. Espiau de Lamaestre, “Efficient coupler between silicon photonic and metal-insulator-silicon-metal plasmonic waveguides,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 101(25), 251117 (2012).
[Crossref]

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Fig. 1
Fig. 1

General scheme of a compact modulator integrated with low-loss plasmonic waveguides. In this geometry, a stripe waveguide (grey) is used to bring a long ranging SPP mode to and from the modulator structure where an applied voltage modulates the SPP wave.

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Illustration of the low-index (a, b, c) and high-index (d, e, f) multilayer modulator designs considered in this work. They are vertically divided by their configuration. The first column, GZO only structures (a) and (d), uses the GZO as both the plasmonic layer and the dynamic layer. The second column, single interface structures (b) and (e), introduces a thick TiN layer, which supports single interface SPPs and use the GZO layer to perform modulation. Finally, the third column of thin TiN structures (c) and (f), uses a thin stripe of TiN to support the long ranging SPP mode and the GZO layer to modulate the signal.

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Fig. 3

(a) GZO permittivity versus its carrier concentration, λ = 1.55 μm. The permittivity of the GZO layer was taken from [52] and a carrier concentration in the GZO was determined using a Drude-Lorentz model fitting: N0 = 9.426 × 1020 cm−3 (black dotted line). (b) TiN permittivity extracted from spectroscopic ellipsometry measurements.

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Fig. 4

Depiction of the mode profile illustrating the definition of the mode size. Due to the complexity of the structure and high concentration of electrical energy in the GZO layer, the traditional definition of the mode size cannot be utilized. Here we define the mode size as the distance/range, which encompasses 86% of the electric field energy, a condition similar to that of the 1/e definition for a single interface waveguide.

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Fig. 5

Multilayer structures along with graphs of the absorption coefficient (a, c) and mode size (b, d) versus GZO carrier concentration. Structures with high-index cladding (lower) show much higher absorption than structures with a low-index cladding (upper). The absorption maximum is accompanied by the highest mode localization, which occurs at the plasmon resonance for the structure. At lower carrier concentrations in the GZO, modes are increased due to smaller magnitude of its real permittivity.

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Schematic of plasmonic modulators integrated with TiN stripe waveguides providing long range SPP propagation to and from the modulator (side view). To create the electrical isolation and prevent shorting of the modulator structure, the silicon layers are doped as shown. However, even with large doping required in the n + region, the losses associated with silicon are several orders of magnitude below the plasmonic losses and are neglected in this analysis.

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Single interface coupling loss between the high-index waveguide and high-index “thin TiN” modulator sections versus carrier concentration in the GZO layer.

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Fig. 8

Example mode profiles in the integrated modulator geometry high-index “thin TiN”. Note that the field decay outside the stripe waveguide is slow and therefore appears constant in this graph. The carrier concentration in the GZO layer used for the calculations corresponds to the maximum absorption in the modulator, i.e. plasmonic resonance condition N = Non. Under these conditions the majority of the field is localized within the GZO layer.

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Table 1 Performance comparison for planar modulator designs. In the following table all of the fundamental parameters for the device characterization are listed. Among them we have Non which is the on-state carrier concentration, αmax which is the maximum absorption in the on-state, αmin which is the minimum absorption in the off-state, ER is the extinction ratio as defined in Eq. (1), woff is the off-state mode size, neff is the effective index of the mode, and FoM is the figure of merit as defined in Eq. (2).

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Table 2 Summary of the performance of previous works in TCO based modulator structures. This is for means of comparison with the structures presented in this paper.

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ER= α max − α min ,
FoM= ER α min λ eff,off w off
γ= 4β β 1 2 ( β + 1 β 2 ) 2 | ∫ ∞ E 1z E 2z * dz | 2 ∫ ∞ E 1z E 1z * dz ⋅ ∫ ∞ E 2z E 2z * dz ,

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