Perfect set-and-forget alignment of silicon photonic resonators and interferometers

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.

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