• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 10, Issue 2, 347 (2022)
Lemeng Leng1、2、3、4、†, Zhaobang Zeng1、2、3、4、†, Guihan Wu1、2、3、4, Zhongzhi Lin1、2、3、4, Xiang Ji1、2、3、4, Zhiyuan Shi1、2、3、4, and Wei Jiang1、2、3、4、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • 3Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • 4National Laboratory of Solid-State Microstructures, Nanjing 210093, China
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.435766 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Lemeng Leng, Zhaobang Zeng, Guihan Wu, Zhongzhi Lin, Xiang Ji, Zhiyuan Shi, Wei Jiang. Phase calibration for integrated optical phased arrays using artificial neural network with resolved phase ambiguity[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(2): 347 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Phase calibration for optical phased arrays (OPAs) is a key process to compensate for the phase deviation and retrieve the initial working state. Conventional calibration approaches based on iterative optimization algorithms are tedious and time-consuming. The essential difficulty of such a problem is to inversely solve for the phase error distribution among OPA elements from the far-field pattern of an OPA. Deep-learning-based technology might offer an alternative approach without explicitly knowing the inverse solution. However, we find that the phase ambiguities, including conjugate ambiguity and periodic ambiguity, severely deter the accuracy and efficacy of deep-learning-based calibration. Device-physics-based analysis reveals the causes of the phase ambiguities, which can be resolved by creating a tailored artificial neural network with phase-masked far-field patterns in a conjugate pair and constructing a periodic continuity-preserving loss function. Through the ambiguity-resolved neural network, we can extract phase error distribution in an OPA and calibrate the device in a rapid, noniterative manner from the measured far-field patterns. The proposed approach is experimentally verified. Pure main-beam profiles with >12 dB sidelobe suppression ratios are observed. This approach can help overcome a crucial bottleneck for the further advance of OPAs in a variety of applications such as lidar.
    I(φ,θ)=Nor{S(θ)|E(φ,θ)|2},

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    E(φ,θ)=m=1Namexp[j(σm+φm)],

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    σm=2πdmsinθ/λ,

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    loss(MSE)=m=2N(φmφ˜m)2/(N1),

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    E(φ,θ)=m=1Nexp[j(σmφNm+1)].

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    E(φ,θ)=m=1Nexp[j(σm+φm)].

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    I(φ+ϕ,θ)=Nor{S(θ)|E(φ+ϕ,θ)|2},

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    E(φ+ϕ,θ)=exp[j(σ1+φ1π)]+exp[j(σN+φN)]+m=2N1exp[j(σm+φm)].

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    E(φ+ϕ,θ)=exp[j(σ1+φ1)]+exp[j(σN+φN+π)]+m=2N1exp[j(σm+φm)].

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    zm=exp(jφm),z¯m=exp(jφ˜m).

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    loss(CMSE)=m=2N[Re(zmz˜m)2+Im(zmz˜m)2]N1,

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    S=1N-1i=2Nψi,(C1)

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    ψi=2arcsin|exp(jφi)exp(jφ˜i)|2,(C2)

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    RMSE(S)=j=1MSj2/M.(C3)

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    Lemeng Leng, Zhaobang Zeng, Guihan Wu, Zhongzhi Lin, Xiang Ji, Zhiyuan Shi, Wei Jiang. Phase calibration for integrated optical phased arrays using artificial neural network with resolved phase ambiguity[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(2): 347
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