Programmable photonics
Programmable photonics is a subfield of photonics that studies the development of photonic circuits for computation. It encompasses passive computation, which sculpts light in a way that performs a certain computation,[1] and the more ambitious, futuristic active computation (like in semiconductors).[2]
Programmable photonics has received increasing interest from the defense, virtual reality, and augmented reality sectors, among others.[3][4][5]
Optical metasurfaces (OMs) are widely considered the current state of the art in passive programmable photonics,[6] making the pragmatic decision of sticking to a 2D layer due to the difficulty of fabricating nanoscale 3D structures.[7] Significant research effort is devoted to fabricating nanoscale, complex 3D structures more efficiently and precisely.[8][9]
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