Variational processing of partially coherent light in a photonic integrated circuit Technical Digest Series Mor, Paul Alexis Kroo, Annie R. Valdez, Carson G. Šimić, Marko Karnieli, Aviv Cavicchioli, Gabriele Sun, Zhanghao Grimaldi, Vittorio Fan, Shanhui Solgaard, Olav Miller, David A.B. Roques-Carmes, Charles We introduce an experimental realization of the measurement, processing, and generation of partially coherent light on a photonic chip. This device relies on self-configuring networks optimized sequentially to learn the coherency matrix of input light. Optica Publishing Group 2026 info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject doc-type:ConferenceObject ConferenceObject http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794 https://research-explorer.ista.ac.at/record/23196 Mor PA, Kroo AR, Valdez CG, et al. Variational processing of partially coherent light in a photonic integrated circuit. In: <i>CLEO Science and Innovations Proceedings</i>. Optica Publishing Group; 2026. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_SI.2026.STU2F.1">10.1364/CLEO_SI.2026.STU2F.1</a> eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1364/CLEO_SI.2026.STU2F.1 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/isbn/9781957171586 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess