Pub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.1088/1612-202x/ad0caf
B I Bantysh, A Yu Chernyavskiy, S A Fldzhyan, Yu I Bogdanov
Programmable linear optical interferometers are promising for classical and quantum applications. Their integrated design makes it possible to create more scalable and stable devices. To use them in practice, one has to reconstruct the whole device model taking the manufacturing errors into account. The inability to address individual interferometer elements complicates the reconstruction problem. A naive approach is to train the model via some complex optimization procedure. A faster optimization-free algorithm has been recently proposed (Bantysh et al 2023 Opt. Express