Scaling programmable silicon photonics circuits

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

Scaling programmable silicon photonics circuits

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2023-03-13

Authors

Bogaerts, Wim

Nagarjun, K. P.

Van Iseghem, Lukas

Chen, Xiangfeng

Deng, Hong

Zand, Iman

Zhang, Yu

Liu, Yichen

Takabayashi, Alain Yuji

Sattari, Hamed

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SPIE

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https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2647293

Abstract

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.

Keywords

Silicon photonic programmable circuits

Citation

Bogaerts, W., Nagarjun, K. P., Van Iseghem, L., Chen, X., Deng, H., Zand, I., Zhang, Y., Liu, Y., Takabayashi, A. Y., Sattari, H., Quack, N., Edinger, P., Jo, G., Bleiker, S., Gylfason, K. B., Niklaus, F., Mallik, A. K., Jezzini, M., Antony, C., Talli, G., Verheyen, P., Beeckman, J. and Khan, U. (2023) 'Scaling programmable silicon photonics circuits', Proceedings of SPIE, 12426, Silicon Photonics XVIII, 1242601. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2647293