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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
