DocumentCode
2304497
Title
Silicon nanowire optical waveguide (SNOW)
Author
Khorasaninejad, Mohammadreza ; Saini, Simarjeet Singh
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
fYear
2010
fDate
7-11 Nov. 2010
Firstpage
447
Lastpage
448
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a novel optical waveguide consisting of ordered or random arrays of silicon nanowires to take advantage of increased optical interactions in nanowire regime while maintaining high optical confinement.
Keywords
elemental semiconductors; nanophotonics; nanowires; optical waveguides; silicon; Si; optical confinement; optical interactions; ordered arrays; random arrays; silicon nanowire optical waveguide;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the
Conference_Location
Denver, CO
ISSN
-
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-5368-9
Electronic_ISBN
-
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5698952
Filename
5698952
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