The main goal of the NeuroPhotonics project is to realize a highly-scalable, physics-informed design platform for on-chip optical systems with arbitrary functionality, based on a deep photonic network of custom-designed Mach-Zehnder interferometers.
NeuroPhotonics is funded by the Marie SklodowskaCurie Fellowship (no 101032147) through the Horizon 2020 program of the European Commission.
Structure and Capabilities
The main project findings are published in our article “Deep Photonic Network Platform Enabling Arbitrary and Broadband Optical Functionality”, available currently as a preprint. Below are some highlights from this preprint.
The main building block of the network is a Mach-Zehnder interferometer constructed from couplers and custom waveguides. These interferometers are then horizontally and vertically cascaded to create the network.
The photonic network is trained and optimized using a target optical functionality, through an iterative procedure using the derivative of the final device response with respect to the design parameters.
Presentations / Workshops
- Seminar given: “Shaping Light with Custom Tapered Waveguides” by ES Magden, for students in ELEC 438 Integrated Photonics Design, Sep 2022.
- Conference talk presented: “Optical Neural Networks with Arbitrary and Wideband Photonic Functionality” by AN Amiri, AD Vit, K Gorgulu, ES Magden. Presented at Frontiers in Optics and Laser Science (Optica Conference) in Oct 2022 in NY, USA. Paper JW4B. 40
- Oral presentation given at local workshop: “Teaching Integrated Optics What to Do” in Oct 2023 at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Conference poster accepted for presentation: “Optimizing photonic devices under fabrication variations with deep photonic networks” by K Gorgulu, AN Amiri, AD Vit, ES Magden. Accepted for presentation at SPIE Photonics West in Jan 2024 in San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Conference oral talk accepted for presentation: “Deep photonic networks for on-chip dispersion control and optimization” by K Gorgulu, AN Amiri, AD Vit, ES Magden. Accepted for presentation at SPIE Photonics West in Jan 2024 in San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Conference oral talk accepted for presentation: “A wideband silicon photonic duplexer constructed from a deep photonic network of custom Mach-Zehnder interferometers” by AN Amiri, AD Vit, K Gorgulu, ES Magden. Accepted for presentation at SPIE Photonics West in Jan 2024 in San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Conference oral talk accepted for presentation: “Towards universal polarization handling with silicon-based deep photonic networks” by AD Vit, AN Amiri, K Gorgulu, ES Magden. Accepted for presentation at SPIE Photonics West in Jan 2024 in San Francisco, CA, USA.