Millimeter wave to terahertz compact and low-loss superconducting plasmonic waveguides for cryogenic integrated nano-photonics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08594v1
• Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 07:41:09 GMT
• Title: Millimeter wave to terahertz compact and low-loss superconducting plasmonic waveguides for cryogenic integrated nano-photonics
• Authors: S. Kalhor, M. Ghanaatshoar, H. J. Joyce, D. A. Ritchie, K. Kadowaki, and K. Delfanazari
• Abstract summary: We demonstrate a plasmonic slot waveguide, at the nanometer scale, based on high transition temperature superconductor BSCCO. The proposed device can open up a new route towards realizing cryogenic low-loss photonic integrated circuitry at the nanoscale.
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• Abstract: Plasmonic, as a rapidly growing research field, provides new pathways to guide and modulate highly confined light in the microwave to the optical range of frequencies. We demonstrate a plasmonic slot waveguide, at the nanometer scale, based on high transition temperature superconductor BSCCO, to facilitates the manifestation of the chip-scale millimeter waves to terahertz integrated circuitry operating at cryogenic temperatures. We investigate the effect of geometrical parameters on the modal characteristics of the BSCCO plasmonic slot waveguide between 100 GHz and 500 GHz. In addition, we investigate the thermal sensing of the modal characteristics of the nanoscale superconducting slot waveguide and show that at a lower frequency, the fundamental mode of the waveguide has a larger propagation length, a lower effective refractive index, and a strongly localized modal energy. Moreover, we find that our device offers a larger SPP propagation length and higher field confinement than the gold plasmonic waveguides at broad temperature ranges below BSCCO Tc. The proposed device can open up a new route towards realizing cryogenic low-loss photonic integrated circuitry at the nanoscale.

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