MORPHIC: programmable photonic circuits enabled by silicon photonic MEMS

Wim Bogaerts; Hamed Sattari; Pierre Edinger; Alain Yuji Takabayashi; Iman Zand; Xiaojing Wang; Antonio Ribeiro; Moises Jezzini; Carlos Errando-Herranz; Giuseppe Talli; Kumar Saurav; Marco Garcia Porcel; Peter Verheyen; Banafsheh Abasahl; Frank Niklaus; Niels Quack; Kristinn B. Gylfason; Peter O'Brien; Umar Khan

doi:10.1117/12.2540934

26 February 2020 MORPHIC: programmable photonic circuits enabled by silicon photonic MEMS

Wim Bogaerts, Hamed Sattari, Pierre Edinger, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Iman Zand, Xiaojing Wang, Antonio Ribeiro, Moises Jezzini, Carlos Errando-Herranz, Giuseppe Talli, Kumar Saurav, Marco Garcia Porcel, Peter Verheyen, Banafsheh Abasahl, Frank Niklaus, Niels Quack, Kristinn B. Gylfason, Peter O'Brien, Umar Khan

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Proceedings Volume 11285, Silicon Photonics XV; 1128503 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2540934
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2020, San Francisco, California, United States

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In the European project MORPHIC we develop a platform for programmable silicon photonic circuits enabled by waveguide-integrated micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). MEMS can add compact, and low-power phase shifters and couplers to an established silicon photonics platform with high-speed modulators and detectors. This MEMS technology is used for a new class of programmable photonic circuits, that can be reconfigured using electronics and software, consisting of large interconnected meshes of phase shifters and couplers. MORPHIC is also developing the packaging and driver electronics interfacing schemes for such large circuits, creating a supply chain for rapid prototyping new photonic chip concepts. These will be demonstrated in different applications, such as switching, beamforming and microwave photonics.

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Wim Bogaerts, Hamed Sattari, Pierre Edinger, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Iman Zand, Xiaojing Wang, Antonio Ribeiro, Moises Jezzini, Carlos Errando-Herranz, Giuseppe Talli, Kumar Saurav, Marco Garcia Porcel, Peter Verheyen, Banafsheh Abasahl, Frank Niklaus, Niels Quack, Kristinn B. Gylfason, Peter O'Brien, and Umar Khan "MORPHIC: programmable photonic circuits enabled by silicon photonic MEMS", Proc. SPIE 11285, Silicon Photonics XV, 1128503 (26 February 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2540934

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