Building Large-Scale Programmable Photonic Circuits Using Silicon Photonic MEMS
Wim Bogaerts, Pierre Edinger, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Iman Zand, Xiangfeng Chen, Xiaojing Wang, Hamed Sattari, Peter Verheyen, Moises A. Jezzini, Giuseppe Talli, Kumar Saurav, Marco Garcia Porcel, Antonio Ribeiro, Gaehun Jo, Niels Quack, Kristinn B. Gylfason, Frank Niklaus, Umar Khan · OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (AP) 2020 (IPR, NP, NOMA, Networks, PVLED, PSC, SPPCom, SOF) · 2020
Programmable photonic circuits electronically reconfigure the flow of light on a chip. This requires hundreds or thousands of phase shifters and tunable couplers. Silicon photonic MEMS offer both high integration density and low power consumption.