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Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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A photonic microchip, next to a 10-euro-cent coin for scale, containing hundreds of inverse-designed components. The close-up images show computer-designed nanostructures, wavelength splitters, mode sorters, and mirrors. The left illustration shows how such devices could be combined and densely packed into integrated photonic circuits on a chip.

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Tobi Bi / MPL

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