Programmable photonics
 | This article, Programmable photonics, has recently been created via the Articles for creation process. Please check to see if the reviewer has accidentally left this template after accepting the draft and take appropriate action as necessary.
Reviewer tools: Inform author |
Programmable photonics is a subfield of photonics that studies the development of photonic circuits for computation. It encompasses passive computation, which sculpts light in a way that performs a certain computation[1], and the more ambitious, futuristic active computation (like in semiconductors)[2].
Programmable photonics has received increasing interest from the defense, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality sectors, among others[3][4][5]. Optical metasurfaces (OMs) are widely considered the current state of the art in programmable photonics[6].
References
- ^ Preble, Stefan; Bergman, Barton; Carpenter, Lewis G.; Chrostowski, Lukas; Dikshit, Amit; Fanto, Michael; Lin, Wenhua; van Niekerk, Matthew; Uddin, Mohammad Rakib; Sundaram, Vijay Soorya Shunmuga (1 January 2023). "Passive silicon photonic devices". Integrated Photonics for Data Communication Applications. Elsevier: 159–199.
- ^ "Active Photonic Platforms (APP) 2024, Conference Details". spie.org.
- ^ "Military optical computing uses fast optical interconnects for small size, light weight, and RFI immunity". Military Aerospace. 30 March 2011.
- ^ "Meta-optics: The disruptive technology you didn't see coming". phys.org.
{{cite news}}:|first1=missing|last1=(help) - ^ "A metalens for virtual and augmented reality". 21 January 2021.
- ^ Neshev, Dragomir; Aharonovich, Igor (29 August 2018). "Optical metasurfaces: new generation building blocks for multi-functional optics". Light: Science & Applications. 7 (1): 58. doi:10.1038/s41377-018-0058-1. ISSN 2047-7538.