(YIP) Modeling and Inverse Design of Ultra-compact, Dynamically Programmable and Switchable Photonic Integrated Circuits
Abstract
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) offer tremendous potential for extending Moore’s Law and significantly impacting both communication and computation by enabling many exciting applications, including optical computers, optical interconnects, sensors, LIDARs, and lens-less cameras. Unfortunately, PICs today offer very little to no re-configurability or dynamic programmability in operation post-fabrication. Recent works which promise limited re-configurability are not feasible for complicated PICs. They require large amounts of chip area, incur significant signal propagation loss, and often need bulky metallic heaters for adjusting dielectric properties which result in excessive static power consumption.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Aug 12, 2021
- Source ID
- FA95502010087
Entities
People
- Constantine Sideris
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- United States Air Force
- University of Southern California