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Optical communication systems have traditionally sent the most information possible through a few spatial channels to minimize cost and maximize density. Energy constraints now compel systems at the longest and shortest distances to employ a new strategy of using more spatial channels, each carrying less data.

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Figure 1: Ultra-long-haul submarine transport system designs.
Figure 2: Short-reach chip-to-chip interconnect designs.

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  1. Joseph M. Kahn and David A. B. Miller are at the Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, 348 Via Pueblo Mall, Stanford, California 94305, USA,

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Kahn, J., Miller, D. Communications expands its space. Nature Photon 11, 5–8 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2016.256

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