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Recently, the scientific community developed another concept: synthetic photonic networks. "This work enables us to use the concept of synthetic photonics dimensions to explore many quantum ...

The discovery, at INRS, of a synthetic photonic lattice capable of generating and manipulating quantum states of light, offers promising prospects for a variety of applications, from quantum ...