Smart on-chip Fourier-transform spectrometers harnessing machine learning algorithms

Herrero-Bermello, Alaine and Li, Jiangfeng and Khazaei, Mohammad and Grinberg, Yuri and Villafranca-Velasco, Aitor and Vachon, Martin and Cheben, Pavel and Stankovic, Lina and Stankovic, Vladimir and Xu, Dan-Xia and Schmid, Jens H. and Alonso-Ramos, Carlos A. (2020) Smart on-chip Fourier-transform spectrometers harnessing machine learning algorithms. In: SPIE Photonics West OPTO, 2020-02-01 - 2020-02-06.

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Abstract

Miniaturized silicon photonics spectrometers have great potential for mass market applications like medicine and hazard detection. However, the performance of state-of-the-art silicon spectrometers is limited by fabrication imperfections and temperature variations. In this work, we present a fundamentally new strategy that combines machine learning algorithms and on-chip spatial heterodyne Fourier-transform spectroscopy to identify specific absorption features operated under a wide range of temperatures in the presence of fabrication imperfections. We experimentally show differentiation of four different input spectra with unknown temperature variations as large as 10 °C. This is about 100x increase in operational range, compared to state-of-the-art retrieval techniques.