# Fingernail-sized chip untangles mixed light into clean beams

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- Published: 2026-11-03T14:20:12+00:00
- Category: Science
- Original: https://phys.org/news/2026-11-fingernail-sized-chip-untangles.html
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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 of separate beams.

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