Scaling programmable silicon photonics circuits

Wim Bogaerts; K. P. Nagarjun; Lukas Van Iseghem; Xiangfeng Chen; Hong Deng; Iman Zand; Yu Zhang; Yichen Liu; Alain Yuji Takabayashi; Hamed Sattari; Niels Quack; Pierre Edinger; Gaehun Jo; Simon Bleiker; Kristinn B. Gylfason; Frank Niklaus; Arun Kumar Mallik; Moises Jezzini; Cleitus Antony; Giuseppe Talli; Peter Verheyen; Jeroen Beeckman; Umar Khan

doi:10.1117/12.2647293

13 March 2023 Scaling programmable silicon photonics circuits

Wim Bogaerts, K. P. Nagarjun, Lukas Van Iseghem, Xiangfeng Chen, Hong Deng, Iman Zand, Yu Zhang, Yichen Liu, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Hamed Sattari, Niels Quack, Pierre Edinger, Gaehun Jo, Simon Bleiker, Kristinn B. Gylfason, Frank Niklaus, Arun Kumar Mallik, Moises Jezzini, Cleitus Antony, Giuseppe Talli, Peter Verheyen, Jeroen Beeckman, Umar Khan

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Proceedings Volume 12426, Silicon Photonics XVIII; 1242601 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2647293
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2023, San Francisco, California, United States

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We give an overview the progress of our work in silicon photonic programmable circuits, covering the technology stack from the photonic chip over the driver electronics, packaging technologies all the way to the software layers. On the photonic side, we show our recent results in large-scale silicon photonic circuits with different tuning technologies, including heaters, MEMS and liquid crystals, and their respective electronic driving schemes. We look into the scaling potential of these different technologies as the number of tunable elements in a circuit increases. Finally, we elaborate on the software routines for routing and filter synthesis to enable the photonic programmer.

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Wim Bogaerts, K. P. Nagarjun, Lukas Van Iseghem, Xiangfeng Chen, Hong Deng, Iman Zand, Yu Zhang, Yichen Liu, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Hamed Sattari, Niels Quack, Pierre Edinger, Gaehun Jo, Simon Bleiker, Kristinn B. Gylfason, Frank Niklaus, Arun Kumar Mallik, Moises Jezzini, Cleitus Antony, Giuseppe Talli, Peter Verheyen, Jeroen Beeckman, and Umar Khan "Scaling programmable silicon photonics circuits", Proc. SPIE 12426, Silicon Photonics XVIII, 1242601 (13 March 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2647293

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