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Loss leads the way to utopia

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The interactions between coupled photonic resonators influence the properties of the whole network. Dissipative coupling extends the ability to engineer photonic networks and brings fully controllable, ‘utopian’ networks within reach.

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Fig. 1: Reconfigurable time-multiplexed photonic resonator network and topological lattices with dissipative coupling.

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  1. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Hrvoje Buljan

  2. The MOE Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, TEDA Applied Physics Institute and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

    Hrvoje Buljan & Zhigang Chen

  3. Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Dario Jukić

  4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Zhigang Chen

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