• 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