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+Acknowledgements
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+* Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germanys Excellence Strategy – EXC-2023 Internet of Production – 390621612
+* The authors acknowledge the financial support by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany in the framework of Research Campus Digital Photonic Production (project number: 13N15423)
+* The authors would like to thank Prof. Jeremy Witzens and Dr. Florian Merget from the Institute and Chair of Integrated Photonics at RWTH Aachen University for their support.
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+.. image:: resources/IoP_Logo.png
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