Plasmonically Enhanced Electronically Addressable Photonic Switches Incorporating Phase-Change Materials
Nikolaos Farmakidis, Nathan Youngblood, June Sang Lee, Johannes Feldmann, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, C. David Wright, Harish Bhaskaran · Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics · 2022
Ever-increasing processing and storage requirements steer us towards co-integration of electronics and photonics. Here, we demonstrate waveguide-integrated plasmonic memory and computing elements by employing phase-change materials with reconfigurable properties and dual electro-optic functionality.