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Switching Circuits

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The researchers developed a method for making configurable silicon photonics circuits. They used it to fabricate a 1 X 4 programmable photonic switching circuit that produces an output at one of four ports (P1-P4) (a) and a 2 X 2 photonic switching circuit with two output ports (P1, P2) (b).

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Xia Chen, University of Southampton

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