A Silicon Photonic Reconfigurable Optical Analog Processor (SiROAP) with a 4x4 Optical Mesh

📋 论文概要

本文提出了一种基于CMOS兼容硅光子学的可重构光学模拟处理器（SiROAP），包含4x4光学网格。该处理器旨在利用光子技术实现高性能模拟计算，克服电子学的局限，为后摩尔时代提供新方案。

💡 主要创新点

• 提出一种可重构硅光子光学模拟处理器架构
• 采用4x4光学网格实现灵活的光互联和计算
• 利用CMOS兼容MPW制造工艺，降低成本和集成难度

🏷 关键词

📄 原文摘要

As we envision post-Moore solid-state circuits, there is a growing impetus for leveraging emerging device technologies outside the traditional CMOS fold. Silicon photonics (SiP) fabrication in CMOS-compatible foundries has emerged as an enabler for highperformance optoelectronic systems, where the complementary strengths of electronics and photonics solve long-standing challenges in either of the two fields. Foundry-based multi-project wafer (MPW) fabrication has resulted in Moore’s law of silicon photonics where the number of components on a chip doubles every 12-to-18 months [1]. However, photonic integrated circuit (PIC) designers undertake long design cycles that involve simulation, layout, fabrication, packaging, and testing, which incurs significant engineering effort and cost. A general-purpose reconfigurable PIC will allow for rapid design exploration that can revolutionize PICs by replicating the success of electronic

👥 作者与机构

Md Jubayer Shawon, Vishal Saxena

University of Delaware, Newark, DE