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Photonics Insights, Volume. 4, Issue 1, R02(2025)

Exceptional-point optics with loss engineering

Shaohua Dong1、†, Heng Wei2, Zhipeng Li2, Guangtao Cao3, Kun Xue1, Yang Chen4、*, and Cheng-Wei Qiu2、*
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  • 1Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China
  • 2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • 3School of Physics and Electronic Sciences, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, China
  • 4Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior and Design of Materials, Department of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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    Category: Review

    Received: Dec. 5, 2024

    Accepted: Feb. 28, 2025

    Published Online: Mar. 26, 2025

    The Author Email: Chen Yang (cyang_phys@ustc.edu.cn), Qiu Cheng-Wei (chengwei.qiu@nus.edu.sg)

    DOI:10.3788/PI.2025.R02

    CSTR:32396.14.PI.2025.R02

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