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Reviving holographic photonic integration

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Holographic waveguides using shallow etching of silicon-on-insulator waveguides makes designing integrated, preset optical vector matrix multiplication computationally tractable and commercially available.

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Fig. 1: Schematic of the inverse-designed structures in a Si-photonic platform.

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Brunner, D. Reviving holographic photonic integration. Nat. Photon. 18, 402–403 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-024-01432-z

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