A Modified Mesh with Individually Monitored Interferometers for Fast Programmable Optical Processors
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Mojaver, Kaveh Hassan Rahbardar; Zhao, Bokun; Liboiron-Ladouceur, Odile
- Source
- 2023 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2023. :1-3 Mar, 2023
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical fibers
Optical interferometry
Program processors
Computer architecture
Programming
Optical fiber communication
Energy efficiency
- Language
We demonstrate a novel mesh of interferometers for programmable optical processors. Employing an efficient programming scheme, the proposed architecture improves energy efficiency by 83% maintaining the same computation accuracy for weight matrix changes at 2 kHz.