Method and apparatus of surface-incident, plasmon-enhanced multiple quantum well modulators and optical coupling thereon

Liu, Jifeng; Wang, Xiaoxin; Hu, Juejun; Sun, Xiaochen; Gu, Tian

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Title: Method and apparatus of surface-incident, plasmon-enhanced multiple quantum well modulators and optical coupling thereon

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An optical interconnect system has first and second waveguides each with wedge-shaped cross-section at a first end, disposed over an optical modulator. The optical modulator is a surface-plasmon multi quantum well (SP-MQW) modulator, the first waveguide an input waveguide and the second waveguide configured an output waveguide. In embodiments the SP-MQW modulator has multiple semiconductor layers disposed atop a lower metal layer between 10 and 300 nanometers thick and configured such that incident light is reflected at the lower metal layer unless a voltage is applied to the semiconductor layers, when incident light is coupled into a surface plasmon mode in the lower metal layer.

Inventors:: Liu, Jifeng; Wang, Xiaoxin; Hu, Juejun; Sun, Xiaochen; Gu, Tian

Issue Date:: Tue May 19 00:00:00 EDT 2020

Research Org.:: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (United States); Laxense Inc., Walnut, CA (United States); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)

OSTI Identifier:: 1650923

Patent Number(s):: 10656443

Application Number:: 15/923,986

Assignee:: Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH); Laxense Inc. (Walnut, CA); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)

Patent Classifications (CPCs):: G - PHYSICS G02 - OPTICS G02F - DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS, THE OPTICAL OPERATION OF WHICH IS MODIFIED BY CHANGING THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIUM OF THE DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF THE INTENSITY, COLOUR, PHASE, POLARISATION OR DIRECTION OF LIGHT, e.g. SWITCHING, GATING, MODULATING OR DEMODULATING

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G - PHYSICS G02 - OPTICS G02F - DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS, THE OPTICAL OPERATION OF WHICH IS MODIFIED BY CHANGING THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIUM OF THE DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF THE INTENSITY, COLOUR, PHASE, POLARISATION OR DIRECTION OF LIGHT, e.g. SWITCHING, GATING, MODULATING OR DEMODULATING
G02F1/017 - Structures with periodic or quasi periodic potential variation, e.g. superlattices, quantum wells
G02F2202/101 - Ga×As and alloy
G02F2202/108 - quantum wells
G02F2203/10 - plasmon

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DOE Contract Number:: AR0000847

Resource Type:: Patent

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 03/16/2018

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; 42 ENGINEERING

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                    Liu, Jifeng, Wang, Xiaoxin, Hu, Juejun, Sun, Xiaochen, and Gu, Tian. Method and apparatus of surface-incident, plasmon-enhanced multiple quantum well modulators and optical coupling thereon.  United States: N. p., 2020. 
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  abstractNote = {An optical interconnect system has first and second waveguides each with wedge-shaped cross-section at a first end, disposed over an optical modulator. The optical modulator is a surface-plasmon multi quantum well (SP-MQW) modulator, the first waveguide an input waveguide and the second waveguide configured an output waveguide. In embodiments the SP-MQW modulator has multiple semiconductor layers disposed atop a lower metal layer between 10 and 300 nanometers thick and configured such that incident light is reflected at the lower metal layer unless a voltage is applied to the semiconductor layers, when incident light is coupled into a surface plasmon mode in the lower metal layer.},

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