Deep Photonic Networks with Arbitrary and Broadband Functionality

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Auteurs principaux: Amiri, Ali Najjar, Vit, Aycan Deniz, Gorgulu, Kazim, Magden, Emir Salih
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author Amiri, Ali Najjar
Vit, Aycan Deniz
Gorgulu, Kazim
Magden, Emir Salih
author_facet Amiri, Ali Najjar
Vit, Aycan Deniz
Gorgulu, Kazim
Magden, Emir Salih
contents Growing application space in optical communications, computing, and sensing continues to drive the need for high-performance integrated photonic components. Designing these on-chip systems with complex and application-specific functionality requires beyond what is possible with physical intuition, for which machine learning-based design methods have recently become popular. However, as the expensive computational requirements for physically accurate device simulations last a critical challenge, these methods typically remain limited in scalability and the optical design degrees of freedom they can provide for application-specific and arbitrary photonic integrated circuits. Here, we introduce a highly-scalable, physics-informed framework for the design of on-chip optical systems with arbitrary functionality based on a deep photonic network of custom-designed Mach-Zehnder interferometers. Using this framework, we design ultra-broadband power splitters and a spectral duplexer, each in less than two minutes, and demonstrate state-of-the-art experimental performance with less than 0.66 dB insertion loss and over 120 nm of 1-dB bandwidth for all devices. Our presented framework provides an essential tool with a tractable path towards the systematic design of large-scale photonic systems with custom and broadband power, phase, and dispersion profiles for use in multi-band optical applications including high-throughput communications, quantum information processing, and medical/biological sensing.
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spellingShingle Deep Photonic Networks with Arbitrary and Broadband Functionality
Amiri, Ali Najjar
Vit, Aycan Deniz
Gorgulu, Kazim
Magden, Emir Salih
Emerging Technologies
Optics
Growing application space in optical communications, computing, and sensing continues to drive the need for high-performance integrated photonic components. Designing these on-chip systems with complex and application-specific functionality requires beyond what is possible with physical intuition, for which machine learning-based design methods have recently become popular. However, as the expensive computational requirements for physically accurate device simulations last a critical challenge, these methods typically remain limited in scalability and the optical design degrees of freedom they can provide for application-specific and arbitrary photonic integrated circuits. Here, we introduce a highly-scalable, physics-informed framework for the design of on-chip optical systems with arbitrary functionality based on a deep photonic network of custom-designed Mach-Zehnder interferometers. Using this framework, we design ultra-broadband power splitters and a spectral duplexer, each in less than two minutes, and demonstrate state-of-the-art experimental performance with less than 0.66 dB insertion loss and over 120 nm of 1-dB bandwidth for all devices. Our presented framework provides an essential tool with a tractable path towards the systematic design of large-scale photonic systems with custom and broadband power, phase, and dispersion profiles for use in multi-band optical applications including high-throughput communications, quantum information processing, and medical/biological sensing.
title Deep Photonic Networks with Arbitrary and Broadband Functionality
topic Emerging Technologies
Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.04776