Plasmonics—high-speed photonics for co-integration with electronics

Abstract New high-speed photonic technologies and co-integration with electronics are required to keep up the demand of future optical communication systems. In this paper, plasmonics is presented as one most promising next-generation that already fulfils these requirements in proof-of-concept demonstrations. Plasmonics features not only modulators detectors highest speed, but also compactness, cost- energy-efficiency, compatibility CMOS electronics. Recently, was demonstrated record performances 222 GBd a hybrid InP electronic-plasmonic transmitter assembly 120 monolithic BiCMOS transmitter.