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ArticleNature2026

Nanophotonic waveguide chip-to-world beam scanning.

Matt Saha, Y Henry Wen, Andrew S Greenspon, Matthew Zimmermann, Kevin J Palm, Alex Witte, Yin Min Goh, Chao Li, Jonathan Bumstead, Kevin Schädler and 7 more

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Article in Nature, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Matt Saha *The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-4203-6536
Y Henry Wen *The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, USA. yhwen@mit.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-8542-3628
Andrew S Greenspon *The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9631-7568
Matthew Zimmermann *The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-6600-6620
Kevin J PalmThe MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4066-4584
Alex WitteThe MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, USA.
Yin Min GohResearch Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3692-8372
Chao LiResearch Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7650-2301
Jonathan BumsteadThe MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA, USA.
Kevin SchädlerAxiomatic_AI, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Ryan FortinThe MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-6457-7608
Mark DongThe MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8577-451X
Andrew J LeenheerSandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4735-292X
Genevieve ClarkThe MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, USA.
Gerald GilbertThe MITRE Corporation, Princeton, NJ, USA. ggilbert@mitre.org.
Matt EichenfieldSandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA. Matt.Eichenfield@colorado.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-7877
Dirk EnglundResearch Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. englund@mit.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1043-3489

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A seamless chip-to-world photonic interface enables broad advancements in optical ranging, display, communication, computation and quantum information science. The ideal solution enables two-dimensional scanning of a diffraction-limited beam from anywhere on a photonic integrated circuit to a large number of resolvable spots. Current beam-scanning technologies are limited by a fundamental trade-off: photonic-integrated-circuits with diffractive optics offer scalability but have poor mode quality

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PMID41814025
PMCPMC12979201

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