• DocumentCode
    1666358
  • Title

    Energy efficient nonlinear optics in silicon: Are slow-light structures more efficient than nanowires?

  • Author

    Husko, Chad ; Eggleton, Benjamin J.

  • Author_Institution
    Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst. (CUDOS), Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We compare the energy performance of nanowires to slow-light photonic crystals in nonlinear optical processes. We outline the regimes where each is energy efficient suggesting a route towards energy efficient silicon integrated photonics.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; nanophotonics; nanowires; nonlinear optics; silicon; Si; energy efficiency; energy performance; nanowires; nonlinear optics; silicon integrated photonics; slow-light photonic crystals; slow-light structures; Energy efficiency; Nanowires; Nonlinear optics; Optical signal processing; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6326129
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1666358