Compact nanomechanical plasmonic phase modulators

Autor: David A. Czaplewski, Michael Haftel, Daniel Lopez, B. S. Dennis, Vladimir A. Aksyuk, Girsh Blumberg
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Nature Photonics. 9:267-273
ISSN: 1749-4893
1749-4885
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2015.40
Popis: Researchers exploit the strong dependence of gap-plasmon phase velocity on gap width to make a compact phase-modulator. An electromechanically variable gap size enables a 23-μm-long non-resonant modulator with moderate losses.
Databáze: OpenAIRE