A Photonic Integrated Circuit (IMAGE)

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A Photonic Integrated Circuit

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A photonic integrated circuit in which an ultralow loss 2-meter optical waveguide guiding visible light in the red spectrum is put on a silicon nitride chip smaller than a penny, important for applications such as strontium atomic clocks.

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Nitesh Chauhan and the DARPA MTO ApHI program

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