Two concurrent demonstrations of programmable photonic processors based on large meshes of interconnected waveguides on a silicon chip provide new hope for optical information processing.
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Miller, D. Meshing optics with applications. Nature Photon 11, 403–404 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2017.104
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