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Programmable photonics chips based on a versatile structure are crucial for the next generation of advanced photonics systems. In this paper, we designed a programmable photonics chip with a hexagonal waveguide mesh consisting of longitudinally parallel arranged tunable basic units based on thin-film lithium niobate. We fabricated a waveguide mesh on a chip with an effective area of 5.2 ×1.5 , which contains six tunable basic units, and tested its performance. The extinction ratio of both output ports of the tunable basic units exceeded 15 dB, with =46 and a response time of about 32 µs. By programming the waveguide mesh through a PC, it can be configured as a multi-channel adjustable optical switch, where the extinction ratio of each output port is greater than 15 dB. This can be applied to all-optical networks for arbitrary path switching.
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