Authors:	U. Khan, I. Zand, L. Van Iseghem, P. Edinger, G. Jo, S. J. Bleiker, A. Y. Takabayashi, C. Antony, M. Jezzini, G. Talli, H. Sattari, J. Lee, A. K. Mallik, P. Verheyen, C. Lerma Arce, M. Garcia, T. Jonuzi, E. Picavet, K.P. Nagarjun, J. Watte, N. Quack, F. Niklaus, K. De Buysser, J. Beekman, W. Bogaerts
Title:	Low power actuators for programmable photonic processors
Format:	International Conference Proceedings
Publication date:	3/2023
Journal/Conference/Book:	SPIE Photonics West OPTO (invited)
Volume(Issue):	12438 p.124380K
Location:	San Francisco, United States
DOI:	10.1117/12.2647371
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Abstract

The demand for efficient actuators in photonics has peaked with increasing popularity for large-scale general-purpose programmable photonics circuits. We present our work to enhance an established silicon photonics platform with low-power micro-electromechanical (MEMS) and liquid crystal (LC) actuators to enable largescale programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs).

Related Research Topics

• Liquid Crystals for nanophotonic applications
• MEMS and NEMS optical actuators in SOI
• 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.)
• Horizon Europe: PHORMIC (Wafer-scale platform for Photonic Programmable Multipurpose Integrated Circuits)