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Holographic waveguides

Reviving holographic photonic integration

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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