Programmable Photonic Circuits for Microwave and Optical Signal Processing @thorlabs

Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

In the past decades, photonic integrated circuits have become entrenched as a key enabling technology for fiber-optic communication. One aspect in which photonic chip technology is less advanced than its electronics counterpart is programmability. In this webinar, Professor Wim Bogaerts of Ghent University-IMEC will introduce different classes of programmable photonic circuits, discuss the state of programmable photonics today, and illustrate this with some recent demonstrations.

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