Power Reduction in Photonic Meshes by MZI Optimization
Maurício Gomes de Queiroz, Raphael Cardoso, Paul Jimenez, Mohab Abdalla, Ian O’Connor, Alberto Bosio, Fabio Pavanello · 2023
Here, we investigate power reduction techniques for meshes of Mach Zehnder Interferometers (MZI), used for photonic matrix multiplications. We also propose a novel bottom-up algorithm that optimally lowers the applied phase shift in each MZI.