• DocumentCode
    2662032
  • Title

    Numerical Studies of Dispersion Properties of SOI Photonic Nanowires

  • Author

    Xiaogang Chen ; Lina Cao ; Panoiu, N.C. ; Osgood, R.M. ; Scarmozzino, R.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Appl. Phys. & Appl. Math., Columbia Univ., New York, NY
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    13-15 Sept. 2006
  • Firstpage
    155
  • Lastpage
    157
  • Abstract
    We present a numerical study of dispersion properties of silicon-on-insulator photonic nanowires. We demonstrate that the effective index, group index, and second-order dispersion coefficient are determined by the waveguide geometry and can be strongly engineered
  • Keywords
    finite element analysis; nanowires; optical dispersion; optical waveguides; silicon-on-insulator; vectors; SOI photonic nanowires; Si-SiO2; dispersion properties; effective index; finite element method; group index; second-order dispersion coefficient; silicon wire waveguides; silicon-on-insulator photonic nanowires; vectorial beam propagation method; waveguide geometry; Dispersion; Geometry; Grid computing; Nanowires; Numerical analysis; Optical refraction; Optical waveguides; Propagation constant; Silicon on insulator technology; Waveguide components;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics, 2006. 3rd IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Ottawa, Ont.
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0096-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708197
  • Filename
    1708197