Optical technology applied to on-chip wireless communication is particularly promising to overcome the performance limitations of the state-of-the-art networks on-chip. A key enabling component for such applications is the plasmonic antenna coupled to conventional silicon waveguides, which can guarantee full compatibility with standard optical circuitry. In this paper, we propose an antenna array configuration based on tilted plasmonic Vivaldi antennas coupled to a silicon waveguide. The details of the single antenna and of the array design are reported. The radiation characteristics of the array are suitable for on-chip point-to-point communication, i.e. in-plane maximum gain of 14.70 dB for an array with five antennas. The array exploits a travelling wave feeding scheme and, therefore, is compact in size (about 3.5 µm x 8.7 µm).

Array of plasmonic vivaldi antennas coupled to silicon waveguides for wireless networks through on-chip optical technology - WiNOT / Calò, Giovanna; Bellanca, Gaetano; Alam, Badrul; Kaplan, Ali Emre; Bassi, Paolo; Petruzzelli, Vincenzo. - In: OPTICS EXPRESS. - ISSN 1094-4087. - ELETTRONICO. - 26:23(2018), pp. 30267-30277. [10.1364/OE.26.030267]

Array of plasmonic vivaldi antennas coupled to silicon waveguides for wireless networks through on-chip optical technology - WiNOT

Calò, Giovanna;Alam, Badrul;Petruzzelli, Vincenzo
2018-01-01

Abstract

Optical technology applied to on-chip wireless communication is particularly promising to overcome the performance limitations of the state-of-the-art networks on-chip. A key enabling component for such applications is the plasmonic antenna coupled to conventional silicon waveguides, which can guarantee full compatibility with standard optical circuitry. In this paper, we propose an antenna array configuration based on tilted plasmonic Vivaldi antennas coupled to a silicon waveguide. The details of the single antenna and of the array design are reported. The radiation characteristics of the array are suitable for on-chip point-to-point communication, i.e. in-plane maximum gain of 14.70 dB for an array with five antennas. The array exploits a travelling wave feeding scheme and, therefore, is compact in size (about 3.5 µm x 8.7 µm).
2018
Array of plasmonic vivaldi antennas coupled to silicon waveguides for wireless networks through on-chip optical technology - WiNOT / Calò, Giovanna; Bellanca, Gaetano; Alam, Badrul; Kaplan, Ali Emre; Bassi, Paolo; Petruzzelli, Vincenzo. - In: OPTICS EXPRESS. - ISSN 1094-4087. - ELETTRONICO. - 26:23(2018), pp. 30267-30277. [10.1364/OE.26.030267]
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