Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Construction of a Multi-Wavelength Unitary Operator via Cascaded Optical Resonators

Tae‐Won Park, Youngjae Jeong, Kyoungsik Yu

Published Jan 1, 2020• 0 citations

Abstract

In universal linear optics, programmable photonic circuits perform an arbitrary linear transformation by the sequential multiplication of two-level achromatic unitary operators. Based on cascaded optical resonator-based building blocks, we construct an arbitrary multi-wavelength unitary operator.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_at.2020.jth2b.5

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