Photonics Breakthroughs 2024: Arbitrary Mode Manipulation Using Reconfigurable Integrated Photonic Processors
Optical modes offer spatial degrees of freedom that can be exploited to implement advanced functionalities across various applications. Conventional photonic devices used for the manipulation of modes operate on predetermined families of eigenmodes of specific systems. Here, we report on a recent fi...
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| author | SeyedMohammad SeyedinNavadeh Francesco Zanetto Andres Ivan Martinez Giorgio Ferrari David A. B. Miller Andrea Melloni Francesco Morichetti |
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| description | Optical modes offer spatial degrees of freedom that can be exploited to implement advanced functionalities across various applications. Conventional photonic devices used for the manipulation of modes operate on predetermined families of eigenmodes of specific systems. Here, we report on a recent finding of our research, where we demonstrate that reconfigurable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) can automatically identify optimal communication modes through arbitrary systems, always ensuring maximum achievable power transmission and mutual orthogonality. Such modes are determined in situ without any precalculation or prior knowledge of the system. Our results extend the concepts and the range of applications of existing schemes for mode manipulation to more complex functionalities and realistic scenarios. We also address recent related works on reconfigurable PICs for generation and detection of arbitrary, structured, and random beams, with an overview of the main results achieved on the different free-space and guided-waves technologies. A discussion of the main limits of the presented approach and the potential implications in diverse and emerging application fields is provided. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-cb281b7c16634d9a8ade53008afe09f82025-08-20T01:54:20ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552025-01-0117311110.1109/JPHOT.2025.356720310988667Photonics Breakthroughs 2024: Arbitrary Mode Manipulation Using Reconfigurable Integrated Photonic ProcessorsSeyedMohammad SeyedinNavadeh0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-3569Francesco Zanetto1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0242-5016Andres Ivan Martinez2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4045-4950Giorgio Ferrari3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2854-8444David A. B. Miller4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3633-7479Andrea Melloni5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6015-3290Francesco Morichetti6https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5858-2811Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, ItalyDipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, ItalyDipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, ItalyDipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, ItalyGinzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USADipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, ItalyDipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, ItalyOptical modes offer spatial degrees of freedom that can be exploited to implement advanced functionalities across various applications. Conventional photonic devices used for the manipulation of modes operate on predetermined families of eigenmodes of specific systems. Here, we report on a recent finding of our research, where we demonstrate that reconfigurable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) can automatically identify optimal communication modes through arbitrary systems, always ensuring maximum achievable power transmission and mutual orthogonality. Such modes are determined in situ without any precalculation or prior knowledge of the system. Our results extend the concepts and the range of applications of existing schemes for mode manipulation to more complex functionalities and realistic scenarios. We also address recent related works on reconfigurable PICs for generation and detection of arbitrary, structured, and random beams, with an overview of the main results achieved on the different free-space and guided-waves technologies. A discussion of the main limits of the presented approach and the potential implications in diverse and emerging application fields is provided.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10988667/Photonic integrated circuits (PICs)optical modesreconfigurable photonicsmach-zehnder interferometersintegrated photonic processorsspatial division multiplexing (SDM) |
| spellingShingle | SeyedMohammad SeyedinNavadeh Francesco Zanetto Andres Ivan Martinez Giorgio Ferrari David A. B. Miller Andrea Melloni Francesco Morichetti Photonics Breakthroughs 2024: Arbitrary Mode Manipulation Using Reconfigurable Integrated Photonic Processors IEEE Photonics Journal Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) optical modes reconfigurable photonics mach-zehnder interferometers integrated photonic processors spatial division multiplexing (SDM) |
| title | Photonics Breakthroughs 2024: Arbitrary Mode Manipulation Using Reconfigurable Integrated Photonic Processors |
| title_full | Photonics Breakthroughs 2024: Arbitrary Mode Manipulation Using Reconfigurable Integrated Photonic Processors |
| title_fullStr | Photonics Breakthroughs 2024: Arbitrary Mode Manipulation Using Reconfigurable Integrated Photonic Processors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Photonics Breakthroughs 2024: Arbitrary Mode Manipulation Using Reconfigurable Integrated Photonic Processors |
| title_short | Photonics Breakthroughs 2024: Arbitrary Mode Manipulation Using Reconfigurable Integrated Photonic Processors |
| title_sort | photonics breakthroughs 2024 arbitrary mode manipulation using reconfigurable integrated photonic processors |
| topic | Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) optical modes reconfigurable photonics mach-zehnder interferometers integrated photonic processors spatial division multiplexing (SDM) |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10988667/ |
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