Fingernail-sized chip untangles mixed light

Stanford and Institute of Science and Technology Austria researchers designed a fingernail-sized photonic chip that separates mixed, partially coherent light into distinct, independent beams using novel algorithms. This technology enables new ways to analyze light’s coherence and could transform applications in microscopy, astronomy, and optical sensing by extracting more information than traditional cameras.

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