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Meshing optics with applications

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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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Figure 1: Artist's impression of a programmable photonic processor chip such as that demonstrated by Shen et al.1 consisting of a waveguide mesh of interconnected Mach–Zehnder interferometers.

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