Microring Weight Banks Control beyond 8.5-bits Accuracy.
2021
The microring resonators (MRR) weight bank, a ubiquitous element in silicon photonics providing weight addition, yet, has long suffered from the weakness of low accuracy, so that harming its potential in various promising applications. Here, we demonstrated a novel dithering method for MRR weight control, reaching an accuracy of up to 8.5 bits and a precision of up to 9.0 bits, which rivals that of the analog processors. Also, this method maintains good scalability to control multi-MRRs with little additional increase in searching time and system complexity, and has efficacious suppression to the inter-channel crosstalk. Given these features, this method could widely benefit the applications of MRR weight banks and facilitate the prevalence of the MRR in silicon photonics.
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