Christian Vernoux

Flexible long-range surface plasmon polariton single-mode waveguide for optical interconnects

Published in Optical Materials Express

We present the design, fabrication and characterization of long-range surface plasmon polariton waveguide arrays with materials, mainly silicones, carefully selected with the aim to be used as mechanically flexible single-mode optical interconnections, the so-called “plasmonic arc” working at 1.55µm. The fabricated plasmonic arcs show a TM/TE polar...

Plasmonic and hybrid plasmo-photonic integrated waveguide technologies

We present different fabrication techniques we have developed for a range of plasmonic waveguide-based active or passive configurations implemented in data router, sensor or interconnect demonstrators. We have integrated active plasmonic waveguide structures into recesses etched into SOI or silicon nitride photonic chips using either e-beam or opti...

Flexible Long-range plasmonic waveguide for optical interconnect application

Flexible Long-Range SPP (LRSPP) have been proposed as possible components in datacom interconnect systems1. From the point of view of both processability and reliability the choice of the most convenient polymer to be used as cladding remains an issue. In the context of FP7 IP PHOXTROT, different polymers have been tested. Here we report on the LRS...

Long-range plasmonic waveguide for Tb/s optical interconnect application

As part as the European IP project “PhoxTroT” (*), aiming at developing Tb/s photonics combined with optical interconnect technology, a flexible long-range surface plasmon polariton (LR-SPP) waveguide structure is proposed and fabricated for mono-mode chip-to-board interconnections. The LR-SPP waveguides are designed for low-loss lightwave guiding ...

Fabrication and optical characterization of long-range plasmonic waveguide interconnects for Tb/s datacom links

Since the 1980s, researchers have been trying to design so-called "optical" computers, in which electrical signals would be replaced by photonic signals. For this, it is necessary to look at interconnection problems between components. This thesis deals with the problem of optical interconnection between electronic components. In order to propose a...