Integrated plasmonic waveguide photodetectors for optical interconnection of silicon chips
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- To keep pace with the scaling of semiconductor technology, the amount of energy required to transmit one bit of information needs to be drastically reduced. Optical interconnects may become a key technology in enabling high bandwidth interconnections, provided that its components operate at sufficiently low energies per bit. At the receiver, the capacitance of the photodetector limits the speed and power consumption that can be achieved. Lower capacitance can be achieved by reducing the physical size of the photodetector to nanoscale volumes, an order of magnitude smaller than the optical wavelength. This dissertation focuses on metallic nanostructures that can be used to bridge this size mismatch between the optical mode and the optoelectronic device. They can be used to enhance the interaction between the optical signal and the photodetector, and if designed as a waveguiding structure, they can provide an efficient way of routing optical signals with deep subwavelength mode dimensions and can integrate well with nanoscale photodetectors, providing a route towards highly integrated low capacitance detectors for optical interconnects.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Ly-Gagnon, Dany-Sebastien |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Electrical Engineering |
| Primary advisor | Miller, D. A. B |
| Thesis advisor | Miller, D. A. B |
| Thesis advisor | Brongersma, Mark L |
| Thesis advisor | Fan, Shanhui, 1972- |
| Advisor | Brongersma, Mark L |
| Advisor | Fan, Shanhui, 1972- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Dany-Sebastien Ly-Gagnon. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering. |
| Thesis | Ph.D. Stanford University 2011 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2011 by Dany-Sebastien Ly-Gagnon
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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