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Photonic Integrated Circuits for the Habitable Worlds Observatory: Science Drivers, Material Platforms, Arrayed-Waveguide Spectrographs, and a Space-Qualification Roadmap

by Keith CowingSeptember 16, 2026September 16, 2026

[astro-ph.IM] NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will require ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared instruments that are simultaneously compact, mechanically and thermally stable, high-throughput, and replicable at large channel counts.

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Photonic Integrated Circuits for the Habitable Worlds Observatory: Science Drivers, Material Platforms, Arrayed-Waveguide Spectrographs, and a Space-Qualification Roadmap

Deep Shifts In Evolutionary Rate Trajectories Of Ancient Bacterial Genes

Spectral Evolution Of Ceres’ Surface and Implications For Space Weathering

Chemists Uncover How Unthinkable Reactions Occur In Unimaginable Conditions

The Enceladian Crater Production Function

Photonic Integrated Circuits for the Habitable Worlds Observatory: Science Drivers, Material Platforms, Arrayed-Waveguide Spectrographs, and a Space-Qualification Roadmap