Photonic microchip, shown next to a 10-euro-cent coin (IMAGE)
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A photonic microchip, shown next to a 10-euro-cent coin for scale, containing hundreds of inverse-designed components developed by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and Harvard University. The close-up images show individual computer-designed nanostructures, wavelength splitters, mode sorters and mirrors, that are as little as one thousandth the size of conventional designs. An illustration (left) shows how many such devices can be combined and densely packed into integrated photonic circuits on a chip only a few millimeters wide.
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MPL, Toby Bi
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