Plasmonic Photonic Integrated Circuits: Technology, Performance, Applications, and Future Prospects

Plasmonic photonic integrated circuits (plasmonic PICs) are a cutting-edge silicon-photonics solution, addressing the demands of the next era’s high-speed integrated photonics. We report newest reliability data, performance and loss statistics, and show how plasmonic modulators enable future op-tical interconnects of 1.6T, 3.2T and beyond.