High-efficient Black-box Calibration of Large-scale Silicon Photonics Switches by Bacterial Foraging Algorithm
Guangwei Cong, Noritsugu Yamamoto, Takashi Inoue, Makoto Okano, Yuriko Maegami, Morifumi Ohno, Koji Yamada · 2019
Black-box calibration algorithm is highly required for various large-scale silicon photonics devices. We demonstrated bacterial-foraging algorithm to calibrate random phase errors in 32×32 matrix switch by simulating switch as black-box, which promised ≤2min calibration time.