User-friendly, reconfigurable all-optical signal processing with integrated photonics

The development of reconfigurable, integrated all-optical signal processors on will enable low-cost and accessible platforms for key technologies such as bio-medical imaging, telecommunications and quantum optics. We demon-strate, that simple, user-friendly, programmable integrated circuits in combination with evolutionary optimization al-gorithms can constitute an essential pillar in the field of smart-photonics.