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Photonics Research, Volume. 10, Issue 12, 2901(2022)

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Ze-Sheng Xu¹, Jun Gao^1,2、*, Govind Krishna¹, Stephan Steinhauer¹, Val Zwiller¹, and Ali W. Elshaari^1,3、*

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¹Department of Applied Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Albanova University Centre, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

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Paper Information

Category: Physical Optics

Received: Aug. 29, 2022

Accepted: Oct. 27, 2022

Published Online: Dec. 5, 2022

The Author Email: Jun Gao (junga@kth.se), Ali W. Elshaari (elshaari@kth.se)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.474165

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