Title :
Perfect set-and-forget alignment of silicon photonic resonators and interferometers
Author :
Shen, Yiran ; Divliansky, Ivan B. ; Basov, Dmitri N. ; Mookherjea, Shayan
Author_Institution :
Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA, USA
Abstract :
Permanent tuning of C- and L-band silicon Mach-Zehnder interferometers and microrings is demonstrated by oxidizing the silicon waveguide core with Angstrom-level precision. Such tuning may lower the power consumption of photonic circuits by an order-of-magnitude.
Keywords :
light interferometers; optical communication equipment; optical resonators; optical tuning; optical waveguides; silicon; Angstrom-level precision; C-band silicon Mach-Zehnder interferometer; L-band silicon Mach-Zehnder interferometer; microrings; permanent tuning; photonic circuit; silicon photonic resonator; silicon waveguide core; Modulation; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Oxidation; Photonics; Silicon; Tuning;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0213-6
