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Advanced mirror technology can reduce the intensity of artefacts in the output of high-power laser systems by a factor of 10,000, enabling significantly greater control in the development of ...

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Abstract: This paper describes industry’s first 3.2Tbs optical engine with integrated mux-dmux on chip, used for co-packaged optics (CPO) application for high bandwidth switch networking systems.