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

Optics Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 2991-2993

  Husko, Chad ^a   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT; NANOWIRES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONICS; SLOW LIGHT;

ENERGY EFFICIENT; ENERGY PERFORMANCE; INTEGRATED PHOTONICS; LIGHT STRUCTURES;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84864356162     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.37.002991     Document Type: Article

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