Programmable Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits
Wim Bogaerts, Xiangfeng Chen, Mi Wang, Iman Zand, Hong Deng, Lukas Van Iseghem, Antonio Ribeiro, Alejandro Diaz Tormo, Umar Khan · 2020
Programmable photonic circuits offer a new way to explore photonic chips: instead of hardwiring waveguide connections, one programs a mesh of tunable couplers. This requires electronics and software routines to govern the behavior of the chip, making it possible to rapidly develop new photonic applications.