METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIPURPOSE MULTICORE PROGRAMMABLE PHOTONIC PROCESSOR

The present invention relates to a programmable multicore photonic processor realized by the combination of two or more programmable photonic blocks, and/or other photonic units like specific high performance blocks, capable of implementing multipurpose signal processing, by the appropriate programming of its resources, routing within the circuits and the blocks to achieve multi-functional operation and the selection of its input and output ports. The invention also relates to a scalable programmable photonic integrated circuits arranged in a modular multicore approach to increase the processing power of the overall system and/or adding a multitude of functionalities enabled by complex photonics circuitry and parallelization.