Authors:	I. Zand, B. Abasahl, U. Khan, W. Bogaerts
Title:	Controlling parasitics in linear optical processors
Format:	International Conference Proceedings
Publication date:	11/2018
Journal/Conference/Book:	Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Benelux Chapter
Volume(Issue):	p.152-155
Location:	Brussels, Belgium
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Abstract

Parasitics of programmable waveguide meshes can induce chaotic subcircuits of randomly coupled ring resonators. We investigate limitations and possible strategies to improve the response of the programmed circuit. Findings show that setting unused couplers to normally cross state considerably reduces the impact of the parasitics errors.

Related Research Topics

• Reconfigurable Photonic Circuits

Related Projects

• H2020: MORPHIC (MEMS-based zerO-power Reconfigurable Photonic ICs)
• ERC-CoG: PhotonicSWARM (Photonic Integrated Circuits using Scattered Waveguide elements in an Adaptive, Reconfigurable Mesh.)