Chin. Phys. Lett.  2009, Vol. 26 Issue (5): 057302    DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/26/5/057302
CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES |
All-Optical Modulation with a Surface Plasmon Mach-Zehnder Interferometer
WU Xiao-Fei, ZHANG Jia-Sen, LI Zhi, LIU Ying-Liang, GONG Qi-Huang
State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871
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WU Xiao-Fei, ZHANG Jia-Sen, LI Zhi et al  2009 Chin. Phys. Lett. 26 057302
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Abstract We use two parallel nano-slits in a silver film to form a surface plasmon Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI), based on the interference of two surface plasmon waves propagating along the two surfaces of the silver film. Coating the silver film with a photoinduced birefringence polymer film, we achieve optical modulation of the MZI output by changing the refractive index of the polymer film with a pump beam. An on/off ratio of 2.7 is obtained for a probe wavelength of 865nm.
Keywords: 73.20.Mf      42.79.Hp      42.70.Jk     
Received: 05 September 2008      Published: 23 April 2009
PACS:  73.20.Mf (Collective excitations (including excitons, polarons, plasmons and other charge-density excitations))  
  42.79.Hp (Optical processors, correlators, and modulators)  
  42.70.Jk (Polymers and organics)  
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