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Cost effective method developed for co-packaging photonic and

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Key challenges in scaling photonic integration to high-volume manufacturing—including optical alignment, thermal management, electrical–optical co-design, and yield—are discussed. The talk

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Next-generation Co-Packaged Optics for Future

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