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Advanced Photonics
Vol. 7, Issue 1, 016006 (2025)

Large-scale free-space photonic circuits in two dimensions

Maria Gorizia Ammendola^1,2,†, Francesco Di Colandrea^1,3,*, Lorenzo Marrucci^1,4, and Filippo Cardano^1,*

Author Affiliations

¹Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Fisica “Ettore Pancini”, Napoli, Italy

²Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Napoli, Italy

³University of Ottawa, Nexus for Quantum Technologies, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

⁴Institute of Applied Science and Intelligent Systems, CNR-ISASI, Pozzuoli, Italy

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