Programmable photonic circuits

W Bogaerts, D Pérez, J Capmany, DAB Miller, J Poon… - Nature, 2020‏ - nature.com
The growing maturity of integrated photonic technology makes it possible to build
increasingly large and complex photonic circuits on the surface of a chip. Today, most of …

Silicon photonics circuit design: methods, tools and challenges

W Bogaerts, L Chrostowski - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Silicon Photonics technology is rapidly maturing as a platform for larger‐scale photonic
circuits. As a result, the associated design methodologies are also evolving from component …

Experimentally realized in situ backpropagation for deep learning in photonic neural networks

S Pai, Z Sun, TW Hughes, T Park, B Bartlett… - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
Integrated photonic neural networks provide a promising platform for energy-efficient, high-
throughput machine learning with extensive scientific and commercial applications. Photonic …

Programmable integrated photonics for topological Hamiltonians

MB On, F Ashtiani, D Sanchez-Jacome… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
A variety of topological Hamiltonians have been demonstrated in photonic platforms, leading
to fundamental discoveries and enhanced robustness in applications such as lasing …

Silicon photonic microresonator-based high-resolution line-by-line pulse sha**

LM Cohen, K Wu, KV Myilswamy, S Fatema… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Optical pulse sha** stands as a formidable technique in ultrafast optics, radio-frequency
photonics, and quantum communications. While existing systems rely on bulk optics or …

32× 32 silicon electro-optic switch with built-in monitors and balanced-status units

L Qiao, W Tang, T Chu - Scientific Reports, 2017‏ - nature.com
To construct large-scale silicon electro-optical switches for optical interconnections, we
developed a method using a limited number of power monitors inserted at certain positions …

16× 16 non-blocking silicon optical switch based on electro-optic Mach-Zehnder interferometers

L Lu, S Zhao, L Zhou, D Li, Z Li, M Wang, X Li… - Optics express, 2016‏ - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate a 16× 16 non-blocking optical switch fabric with a footprint
of 10.7× 4.4 mm^ 2. The switch fabric is composed of 56 2× 2 silicon Mach-Zehnder …

Unscrambling light—automatically undoing strong mixing between modes

A Annoni, E Guglielmi, M Carminati, G Ferrari… - Light: Science & …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Propagation of light beams through scattering or multimode systems may lead to the
randomization of the spatial coherence of the light. Although information is not lost, its …

Demonstration of a 4× 4-port universal linear circuit

A Ribeiro, A Ruocco, L Vanacker, W Bogaerts - Optica, 2016‏ - opg.optica.org
We present a silicon implementation of a 4× 4-port universal linear optical circuit. Instead of
predefining the exact functionality of a photonic circuit at design time, we demonstrate a …

Parallel programming of an arbitrary feedforward photonic network

S Pai, IAD Williamson, TW Hughes… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable photonic mesh networks of tunable beamsplitter nodes can linearly
transform N-dimensional vectors representing input modal amplitudes of light for …