2021 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series (SUM) | 2021
Establishing free-space optical communication channels through a reconfigurable silicon mesh
Abstract
A reconfigurable mesh of silicon Mach-Zehnder Interferometers (MZIs) is employed to manipulate optical beams in order to establish free-space optical communication channels. Automated feedback-control strategies enable the mesh to self-calibrate and maintain the transmission quality in presence of perturbations of the beam front.