Output details
13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University of Southampton
Ultrafast active plasmonics
Significance of output:
Plasmonics is an emerging technology that promises to revolutionize optical data processing, and inter and intra chip communication. The paper was an eagerly anticipated justification for ultrafast plasmonics, demonstrating that plasmonic signals could be handled and modulated with terahertz bandwidth thus offering orders of magnitude advantage over existing electronic interconnect technologies. It helped to identify limits of practical applications of plasmonics in optical data processing. The paper, a major result of the £3.9M EPSRC Nanophotonics Porfolio Partnership Grant EP/C511786/1, facilitated a follow-up £6M EPSRC Programme grant (EP/G060363/1), and industrial grants from Samsung, Sony and FujiFilm grants totalling more than £300k.
