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Silicon Nitride Waveguide

Silicon nitride waveguide is an integrated photonic waveguide that uses silicon nitride as the guiding core material on a chip to confine and route light, supporting low-loss optical communications, sensing, and signal-processing functions in enterprise and research photonic systems.

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