Silicon-Organic Hybrid (SOH) and Plasmonic-Organic Hybrid (POH) Integration

Abstract
Silicon photonics offers tremendous potential for inexpensive high-yield photonic-electronic integration. Besides conventional dielectric waveguides, plasmonic structures can also be efficiently realized on the silicon photonic platform, reducing device footprint by more than an order of magnitude. However, neither silicon nor metals exhibit appreciable second-order optical nonlinearities, thereby making efficient electro-optic modulators challenging to realize. These deficiencies can be overcome by the concepts of silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) and plasmonic-organic hybrid integration, which combine SOI waveguides and plasmonic nanostructures with organic electro-optic cladding materials.
Funding Information
  • European Research Council
  • ERC Starting Grant “EnTeraPIC,” (280145)
  • Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation
  • EU projects PhoxTroT
  • BigPipes
  • Navolchi and SOFI
  • Karlsruhe International Research School for Teratron-ics (HIRST)
  • Karlsruhe Nano-Micro Facility (KNMF)
  • Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN)
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)