Towards an efficient simulation framework for plasmonic organic hybrid E/O modulators

Due to the large computational resources required, with CPU times of the order of several days, full-wave optical simulators can be hardly exploited for the modeling and optimization of plasmonic organic hybrid electro/optic modulators. With the aim to drastically reduce such complexity, in this work we present a divide-et-impera strategy reducing the number of FDTD simulations required to perform a full-wave simulation of the modulation response. This framework is demonstrated on 2D simulations of a device inspired by the literature, tracing a viable roadmap towards a computationally sustainable, yet accurate, comprehensive 3D simulation framework.