title: Energy efficient nonlinear optics in silicon: are slow-light structures more efficient than nanowires?
abstract: We compare the energy performance of four-wave mixing in nanowires and slow-light photonic crystals and outline the regimes where each platform exhibits salient advantages and limitations, including analysis of the impact of future fabrication improvement. These results suggest a route towards energy efficient silicon integrated photonics.
authors: Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS), School of Physics, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. husko@physics.usyd.edu.au
authors: Chad
authors: C
authors: Husko
authors: Benjamin J
authors: BJ
authors: Eggleton