Efficient modeling of plasmonic organic hybrid electro/optic modulators

The work focuses on the modeling and simulation of plasmonic organic hybrid electro/optic modulators. Preliminary multiphysics-augmented simulations of the slot plasmonic waveguide phase modulator are presented. Instead of applying them to system-level models, they are combined with the results of 3D finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations to achieve realistic physics-based simulations at moderate computational costs. The model is demonstrated on a Mach-Zehnder plasmonic modulator inspired to literature results and validated through a comparison with 3D-FDTD simulations of the entire device.