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Fingernail-sized chip untangles mixed light into clean beams

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SignalsMonitor is following this as a technology story. Phys.org Breaking News is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 3 Nov 2026, 14:20 UTC. The headline in use is “Fingernail-sized chip untangles mixed light into clean beams”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
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Stanford engineers and colleagues designed a chip that can take a muddled mixture of light from multiple lasers and output clean beams of light. It's the first time researchers have demonstrated a device that can take in mixed, or partially coherent, light and sort its photons into a clear set…
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Fingernail-sized chip untangles mixed light into clean beams
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