Transient reconfigurable subangstrom-precise photonic circuits at the optical fiber surface

TL;DR

This paper introduces a method for creating transient, fully reconfigurable photonic circuits on optical fiber surfaces with subangstrom precision, enabling dynamic control of light pathways.

Contribution

The authors demonstrate the experimental creation and manipulation of a nano-bottle resonator with 0.7 angstrom precision, a novel building block for reconfigurable photonic circuits.

Findings

Successful creation of a 0.7 angstrom-precise nano-bottle resonator.

Demonstration of local heating for precise resonator manipulation.

Potential for dynamic, reconfigurable photonic circuits at the fiber surface.

Abstract

Transient fully reconfigurable photonic circuits can be introduced at the optical fiber surface with subangstrom precision. A building block of these circuits, a 0.7 angstrom-precise nano-bottle resonator, is experimentally created by local heating, translated, and annihilated.