@inproceedings{b7b00466dea1418cb9d5e001c8aeff52,
title = "Experimental Evolutionary Optimization of an Active Multimode Interferometer",
abstract = "Compact, re-configurable integrated photonic devices are important for communications and computing applications. In this work, we demonstrate an integrated silicon photonic tunable multimode interferometer with > 25 dB tunabilty per port, optimized experimentally with an evolutionary algorithm.",
author = "\{Van Niekerk\}, Matthew and Starling, \{David J.\} and Howland, \{Gregory A.\} and Gerald Leake and Alin Antohe and Siti Binti and Daniel Coleman and Smith, \{A. Matthew\} and Tison, \{Christopher C.\} and Fanto, \{Michael L.\} and Preble, \{Stefan F.\}",
note = "Funding Information: Experimental code and data is available at https://github.com/matthewvanniekerk/demmi. This work is supported by Air Force Research Laboratory (FA8750-16-2-0140) and NSF (Award \#1810282). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the AFRL or NSF.; 2020 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2020 ; Conference date: 10-05-2020 Through 15-05-2020",
year = "2020",
month = may,
language = "English (US)",
series = "Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
booktitle = "2020 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2020 - Proceedings",
address = "United States",
}