A Self-Similar Sine-Cosine Fractal Architecture for Multiport Interferometers
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Basani, Jasvith Raj; Krishna Vadlamani, Sri; Bandyopadhyay, Saumil; Englund, Dirk R.; Hamerly, Ryan
- Source
- 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2023 Conference on. :1-2 May, 2023
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical interferometry
Systematics
Quantum computing
Optical design
Computer architecture
Hardware
Fractals
- Language
We propose a novel architecture for multiport interferometers based on the Sine-Cosine fractal decomposition of unitary matrices. Our design is modular, resilient to hardware imperfections and enables systematically truncated for use in optical neural networks.