Driver-Less Sub 1 Vpp Operation of a Plasmonic-Organic Hybrid Modulator at 100 GBd NRZ

We demonstrate driver-less 100 GBd operation of a plasmonic intensity modulator. Drive voltages below 1V lead to low power consumption of 2.84 fJ/bit for 100 Gbit/s with a direct detected BER below the HD-FEC limit.