High-Speed Plasmonic Modulator for Simultaneous C- and O-Band Modulation with Simplified Fabrication

A plasmonic modulator spanning both C- and O-band for dual-band data modulation up to 100 Gbit/s in one single device is presented. Fiber-to-fiber insertion loss can be as low as 11 dB.

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