Programmable Silicon Photonic Circuits
Wim Bogaerts, Xiangfeng Chen, Hong Deng, Lukas Van Iseghem, Mi Wang, Iman Zand, Yu Zhang, Yichen Liu, K. P. Nagarjun, Umar Khan · 2022 27th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC) and 2022 International Conference on Photonics in Switching and Computing (PSC) · 2022
Programmable photonics configure the flow of light on a photonic chip using software and electrical actuators. Such flexible chips are useful for prototyping new applications. We discuss the underlying technologies for hardware and software.