High-speed plasmonic phase modulators

A phase modulator that is only 29 µm long and operates at 65 GHz is demonstrated using plasmonics and the Pockels effect in a nonlinear polymer. The device operates across a 120-nm-wide wavelength range centred on 1,550 nm and at temperatures up to 85 °C.

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