Plasmonic metafibers electro-optic modulators

Lei Zhang; Xinyu Sun; Hongyan Yu; Niping Deng; Feng Qiu; Jiyong Wang; Min Qiu

doi:10.1038/s41377-023-01255-7

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Plasmonic metafibers electro-optic modulators

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- Plasmonic metafibers electro-optic modulators
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 12, Issue 9, Pages: 1893-1901(2023)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
  2.Key Laboratory of 3D Micro/Nano Fabrication and Characterization of Zhejiang Province, School of Engineering, Westlake University, 18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024 Zhejiang, China
  3.Institute of Advanced Technology, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, 18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024 Zhejiang, China
  4.College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
  5.Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou 310024, China
  6.Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center of Smart Microsensors and Microsystems, School of Electronics and Information, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China
- Author bio：
  
  Jiyong Wang (jiyongwang@hdu.edu.cn)
  Min Qiu (qiumin@westlake.edu.cn)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/s41377-023-01255-7
  CLC：
- Published：30 September 2023，
  
  Published Online：22 August 2023，
  
  Received：30 January 2023，
  
  Revised：31 July 2023，
  
  Accepted：06 August 2023
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Zhang, L. et al. Plasmonic metafibers electro-optic modulators. Light: Science & Applications, 12, 1893-1901 (2023).
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Zhang, L. et al. Plasmonic metafibers electro-optic modulators. Light: Science & Applications, 12, 1893-1901 (2023). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-023-01255-7.

摘要

Abstract

Digitalizing optical signals through electric driving signals

electro-optic modulators (EOMs) are one of the cardinal elements in modern optical communications. Most of current EOM devices are targeting on-chip integrations

which routinely suffer from high coupling losses

complex optical alignments and single-band operations. In this study

we for the first time integrate a lumped EOM device on the endfaces of a single-mode optical fiber jumper for fast amplitude modulations. Profiting from ultrathin and high quality-factor plasmonic metasurfaces

nanofabrication-friendly and highly efficient EO polymers and coupling-free connections with fiber networks

our EOM is demonstrated to allow dual-band operations (telecom O band and S band) and high-speed modulations (~1 GHz at a bias voltage of ±9 V). This work offers an avenue to 'plug-and-play' implementations of EO devices and ultracompact "all-in-fibers" optical systems for communications

imaging

sensing and many others.

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