Dispersion Engineered Silicon Nanocrystal Slot Waveguides for Soliton Ultrafast Optical Processing

Table 2

Slot structure optical parameters at 𝜆=1550 nm.

Parameter	SLOT#1	SLOT#2	SLOT#3
𝑊 (nm)	180	200	200
Total height (nm)	440	442	422
Polarization	quasi-TM	quasi-TM	quasi-TM
𝐺 (nm)	50	50	30
q	1.08	0.98	0.98
𝐴eff (μm^2)	0.04881	0.0485	0.0347
𝑛eff	1.446	1.566	1.673
ΓSi	0.16	0.1716	0.2201
ΓSi-nc	0.30	0.3326	0.2937
β 2 (ps^2/m)	−4.074	−1.052	−2.76
γ ((Wm)^−1)	3255	3385	4602