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Journal of Semiconductors, Volume. 44, Issue 10, 101301(2023)

Fundamentals and applications of photonic waveguides with bound states in the continuum

Zejie Yu^1,3,4、*, He Gao¹, Yi Wang², Yue Yu², Hon Ki Tsang², Xiankai Sun², and Daoxin Dai^1,3,4,5

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¹Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, State Key Laboratory for Modern Optical Instrumentation, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Sensing Technologies, International Research Center for Advanced Photonics, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China

²Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China

³Jiaxing Key Laboratory of Photonic Sensing & Intelligent Imaging, Jiaxing 314000, China

⁴Intelligent Optics & Photonics Research Center, Jiaxing Research Institute Zhejiang University, Jiaxing 314000, China

⁵Ningbo Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Ningbo 315100, China

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Zejie Yu, He Gao, Yi Wang, Yue Yu, Hon Ki Tsang, Xiankai Sun, Daoxin Dai. Fundamentals and applications of photonic waveguides with bound states in the continuum[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2023, 44(10): 101301

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Received: Mar. 15, 2023

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Published Online: Dec. 26, 2023

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DOI:10.1088/1674-4926/44/10/101301

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