Silicon Programmable Photonic Circuits Based on Periodic Bimodal Waveguides

[EN] This study proposes an alternative tunable unit to address some of the most challenging limitations in programmable photonics: large-scale integration and space utilization. It demonstrates the use of periodic bimodal waveguides in the core of the programmable photonic circuit for optical matri...

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Autores: Torrijos-Morán, Luis, Pérez-Galacho, Diego, Pérez-López, Daniel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/212113
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/212113
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Optical matrix multiplications
Periodic bimodal waveguides
Programmable integrated photonics
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Sumario:[EN] This study proposes an alternative tunable unit to address some of the most challenging limitations in programmable photonics: large-scale integration and space utilization. It demonstrates the use of periodic bimodal waveguides in the core of the programmable photonic circuit for optical matrix multiplication, with a resulting footprint that vastly outperforms conventional MZI-based approaches by more than two-orders of magnitude.image