Edinger, PierreDjuphammar, AugustTakabayashi, Alain Y.Bogaerts, WimQuack, NielsGylfason, Kristinn B.2025-04-152025-04-152025-04-15202510.1117/12.30418552-s2.0-105001921420https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/249259Reconfigurable optical gates control power and phase in programmable photonic circuits. However, state-of-the-art optical gates are power-hungry due to using heaters and large due to using Mach-Zehnder Interferometers. Here, we demonstrate a compact low-power optical gate based on a silicon photonic MEMS dual-drive directional coupler.enfalseMEMSoptical gatesphotonic MEMSprogrammable photonicsSilicon photonicsA compact 2 × 2 optical gate using a silicon photonic MEMS dual-drive directional couplertext::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper