ZIVA CORPORATION — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: SB132-003

Description

Through the combined development of advanced waveguide architectures and meta-material synthesis techniques, Zivas approach to meta- plasmonic interconnects promises to provide low loss photonic waveguides and devices with sizes comparable to electronic wires and circuitslight on a wire.Zivas novel plasmonic waveguide architectures addresses the loss limitation of highly confined plasmonic waveguides by enhancing the performance of conventional MIM-plasmonic waveguides through implementation of a synthesized meta-material cladding surrounding the dielectric wave-guiding core of the structure.This idealized metal cladding (IMC)-MIM waveguide architecture promises to enable a new generation of passive and high speed active optical devices on a scale compatible with the size of electronics at the chip level.Meta-plasmonics enabled interconnects provide a perfect synthesis between conventional electronic and optical interconnect technologies where electronic waves are harnessed at optical frequencies.Zivas IMC-MIM architecture is scalable and capable of simultaneously supporting waveguide pitches ~100nm and ~10dB/cm propagation loss requirements of next generation interconnect applications.This technique promises to have a revolutionary impact to computation, communications, nano-scale interconnects, imaging, and sensing.