[WG3] Programmable Photonics and Wireless Communications

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM JST(5:45 AM - 6:00 AM UTC)

[WG3-3] Free-Space Optical Communication Receiver with MMF and Photonic Processing Circuit

○Mengyuan Jiang, Go Soma, Chun Ren, Takuo Tanemura (The Univ. of Tokyo)

Keywords:

Programmable,reconfigurable photonics,Optical signal processing devices

We propose a free-space optical receiver with a multimode fiber and a photonic integrated circuit consisting of a tunable Mach-Zehnder. The strict optical alignment issue in free-space communication is greatly alleviated by using this schematic.