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Chirality-assembled on-chip lasers

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Optical micro-printing provides a way to directly self-assemble photonic microchips with chiral liquid-crystalline photonic elements.

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Fig. 1: Towards chiral photonic microchips and brain–machine interfaces.

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  1. International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (WPI-SKCM²), Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan

    Shunsuke Takano, Toru Asahi & Ivan I. Smalyukh

  2. Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

    Shunsuke Takano & Toru Asahi

  3. Comprehensive Research Organization and Research Organization for Nano and Life Innovation, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

    Toru Asahi

  4. Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA

    Ivan I. Smalyukh

  5. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA

    Ivan I. Smalyukh

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Takano, S., Asahi, T. & Smalyukh, I.I. Chirality-assembled on-chip lasers. Nat. Photon. 19, 659–661 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-025-01711-3

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