Subwavelength self-imaging in cascaded waveguide arrays

Wange Song; Hanmeng Li; Shenglun Gao; Chen Chen; Shining Zhu; Tao Li

doi:10.1117/1.AP.2.3.036001

Advanced Photonics, Volume. 2, Issue 3, 036001(2020)

Subwavelength self-imaging in cascaded waveguide arrays

Wange Song^1,2, Hanmeng Li^1,2, Shenglun Gao^1,2, Chen Chen^1,2, Shining Zhu^1,2, and Tao Li^1,2、*

¹Nanjing University, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Integration, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, Nanjing, China

²Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing, China

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Paper Information

Category: Research Articles

Received: Feb. 14, 2020

Accepted: Apr. 23, 2020

Posted: Apr. 23, 2020

Published Online: May. 13, 2020

The Author Email: Tao Li (taoli@nju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1117/1.AP.2.3.036001

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