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Nature Photonics 3, 12 - 13 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2008.259

Active Plasmonics: Ultrafast developments

L. Cao1 & Mark L. Brongersma1

  1. L. Cao and Mark L. Brongersma are at the Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
    e-mail: Brongersma@stanford.edu


Recent research suggests that plasmonics may offer a route to the development of modulators with terahertz bandwidths, many orders of magnitude faster than today's devices.

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