ZIVA CORPORATION — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: Through the combined development of advanced waveguide architectures and meta-material syn

Description

Through the combined development of advanced waveguide architectures and meta-material synthesis techniques, Ziva's approach to meta- plasmonic interconnects promises to provide low loss photonic waveguides and devices with sizes comparable to electronic wires and circuits"light on a wire". Ziva's 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. Ziva's IMC-MIM architecture is scalable and capable of supporting the waveguide pitch & #8804;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.