• DocumentCode
    1596353
  • 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
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • ISSN
    pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0213-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5875805