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Overview

Delwin L. Elder is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and contributes extensively to the fields of Engineering and Physics and Astronomy. Their research primarily focuses on Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Additional subfields include Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their scientific output covers a wide range of topics, with significant contributions to Photonic and Optical Devices, Advanced Photonic Communication Systems, and Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies. Other key topics include Nonlinear Optical Materials Research, Optical Network Technologies, Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research, and Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Elder include:

  • "Gigahertz free-space electro-optic modulators based on Mie resonances," 2022, published in Nature Communications
  • "Ultrahigh Electro-Optic Coefficients, High Index of Refraction, and Long-Term Stability from Diels-Alder Cross-Linkable Binary Molecular Glasses," 2020, published in Chemistry of Materials
  • "A monolithic bipolar CMOS electronic-plasmonic high-speed transmitter," 2020, published in Nature Electronics
  • "Electro-optic spatial light modulator from an engineered organic layer," 2021, published in Nature Communications
  • "Silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) Mach-Zehnder modulators for 100 GBd PAM4 signaling with sub-1 dB phase-shifter loss," 2020, published in Optics Express

Elder frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • Nature Communications
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • Optics Express
  • Optica

Frequent collaborators include Larry R. Dalton, Juerg Leuthold, Wolfgang Heni, Yuriy Fedoryshyn, and Huajun Xu, with collaboration counts indicating sustained research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • All-plasmonic Mach–Zehnder modulator enabling optical high-speed communication at the microscale

    Christian Haffner;Wolfgang Heni;Yuriy Fedoryshyn;Jens Niegemann

  • Low-loss plasmon-assisted electro-optic modulator

    Christian Haffner;Daniel Chelladurai;Yuriy Fedoryshyn;Arne Josten

  • High-speed plasmonic modulator in a single metal layer

    Masafumi Ayata;Yuriy Fedoryshyn;Wolfgang Heni;Benedikt Baeuerle

  • Femtojoule electro-optic modulation using a silicon–organic hybrid device

    Sebastian Koeber;Robert Palmer;Matthias Lauermann;Wolfgang Heni;Wolfgang Heni

  • 500 GHz plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator enabling sub-THz microwave photonics

    Maurizio Burla;Claudia Hoessbacher;Wolfgang Heni;Christian Haffner

  • Ultra-high electro-optic activity demonstrated in a silicon-organic hybrid modulator

    Clemens Kieninger;Yasar Kutuvantavida;Delwin L. Elder;Stefan Wolf

  • Gigahertz free-space electro-optic modulators based on Mie resonances

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  • Silicon–Organic and Plasmonic–Organic Hybrid Photonics

    Wolfgang Heni;Yasar Kutuvantavida;Christian Haffner;Heiner Zwickel

  • Plasmonic modulator with >170 GHz bandwidth demonstrated at 100 GBd NRZ.

    C Hoessbacher;A Josten;B Baeuerle;Y Fedoryshyn

  • Silicon-Organic Hybrid (SOH) and Plasmonic-Organic Hybrid (POH) Integration

    Christian Koos;Juerg Leuthold;Wolfgang Freude;Manfred Kohl

  • High-Speed, Low Drive-Voltage Silicon-Organic Hybrid Modulator Based on a Binary-Chromophore Electro-Optic Material

    Robert A. Palmer;Sebastian Koeber;Delwin L. Elder;Markus Woessner

  • Plasmonic IQ modulators with attojoule per bit electrical energy consumption.

    Wolfgang Heni;Yuriy Fedoryshyn;Benedikt Baeuerle;Arne Josten

  • Nonlinearities of organic electro-optic materials in nanoscale slots and implications for the optimum modulator design.

    Wolfgang Heni;Christian Haffner;Delwin L Elder;Andreas F Tillack

  • Silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) frequency comb sources for terabit/s data transmission

    Claudius Weimann;Philipp Claudius Schindler;Robert T. Palmer;Stefan T. Wolf

  • Ultrahigh Electro-Optic Coefficients, High Index of Refraction, and Long-Term Stability from Diels–Alder Cross-Linkable Binary Molecular Glasses

    Huajun Xu;Fenggang Liu;Delwin L. Elder;Lewis E. Johnson

  • A monolithic bipolar CMOS electronic–plasmonic high-speed transmitter

    Ueli Koch;Christopher Uhl;Horst Hettrich;Yuriy Fedoryshyn

  • Compact and ultra-efficient broadband plasmonic terahertz field detector.

    Yannick Salamin;Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus;Yuriy M. Fedoryshyn;Wolfgang Heni

  • Plasmonic Organic Hybrid Modulators—Scaling Highest Speed Photonics to the Microscale

    Christian Haffner;Wolfgang Heni;Yuriy Fedoryshyn;Arne Josten

  • Electro-optic spatial light modulator from an engineered organic layer.

    Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus;Maryna L. Meretska;Delwin L. Elder;Michele Tamagnone

  • Direct Conversion of Free Space Millimeter Waves to Optical Domain by Plasmonic Modulator Antenna

    Yannick Salamin;Wolfgang Heni;Christian Haffner;Yuriy Fedoryshyn

  • Matrix-Assisted Poling of Monolithic Bridge-Disubstituted Organic NLO Chromophores

    Delwin L. Elder;Stephanie J. Benight;Jinsheng Song;Bruce H. Robinson

  • 108 Gbit/s Plasmonic Mach–Zehnder Modulator with > 70-GHz Electrical Bandwidth

    W. Heni;C. Haffner;B. Baeuerle;Y. Fedoryshyn

  • Ultra-High Electro-Optic Activity Demonstrated in a Silicon-Organic Hybrid (SOH) Modulator

    Clemens Kieninger;Yasar Kutuvantavida;Delwin L. Elder;Stefan Wolf

  • Plasmonic-organic hybrid (POH) modulators for OOK and BPSK signaling at 40 Gbit/s

    A. Melikyan;K. Koehnle;M. Lauermann;R. Palmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Larry R. Dalton
Larry R. Dalton University of Washington
Juerg Leuthold
Juerg Leuthold ETH Zurich
Wolfgang Heni
Wolfgang Heni ETH Zurich
Wolfgang Freude
Wolfgang Freude Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Christian Koos
Christian Koos Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Bruce H. Robinson
Bruce H. Robinson University of Washington
Luca Alloatti
Luca Alloatti ETH Zurich
Wim Bogaerts
Wim Bogaerts Ghent University
Sebastian Randel
Sebastian Randel Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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