All-optical mode unscrambling on a silicon photonic chip

Abstract

Propagation of light beams through scattering or multimode systems may lead to randomization of the spatial coherence of the light. Although information is not lost, its recovery requires a coherent interferometric reconstruction of the original signals, which have been scrambled into the modes of the scattering system. Here, we show that we can automatically unscramble four optical beams that have been arbitrarily mixed in a multimode waveguide, undoing the scattering and mixing between the spatial modes through a mesh of silicon photonics Mach-Zehnder interferometers. Using embedded transparent detectors and a progressive tuning algorithm, the mesh self-configures automatically and reset itself after significantly perturbing the mixing, without turning off the beams. We demonstrate the recovery of four separate 10 Gbits/s information channels, with residual cross-talk between beams of -20dB. This principle of self-configuring and self-resetting in optical systems should be applicable in a wide range of optical applications.

23 pages, 10 figures

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