A Phase-Optimal Linear Photonic Architecture
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Hamerly, Ryan; Sludds, Alexander; Englund, Dirk
- Source
- 2023 International Conference on Photonics in Switching and Computing (PSC) Photonics in Switching and Computing (PSC), 2023 International Conference on. :1-3 Sep, 2023
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Photonics and Electrooptics
Sensitivity
Power demand
Phase shifters
Computer architecture
Very large scale integration
Programming
Photonics
photonic circuit
multiport interferometer
phase shifter
information entropy
- Language
- ISSN
- 2166-8892
We derive the information-theoretic limit to phase-shift efficiency of universal multiport interferometers, and propose an architecture that approaches this limit to within a factor of 2×, approximately a 10× improvement over the prior art.