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Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 7, 1294(2023)

Electrical manipulation of lightwaves in the uniaxially strained photonic honeycomb lattices under a pseudomagnetic field

Zhipeng Qi1、†, Hao Sun2、†, Guohua Hu3,5、*, Chunyu Deng3, Wanghua Zhu3, Bo Liu1,6、*, Ying Li1, Shaopeng Liu1, Xuechao Yu4, and Yinping Cui3,7、*
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  • 1School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
  • 2The Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials (I-FIM), National University of Singapore, Singapore 117544, Singapore
  • 3Advanced Photonics Center, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
  • 4Key Laboratory of Multifunctional Nanomaterials and Smart Systems, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215123, China
  • 5e-mail: photonics@seu.edu.cn
  • 6e-mail: bo@nuist.edu.cn
  • 7e-mail: cyp@seu.edu.cn
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    Category: Nanophotonics and Photonic Crystals

    Received: Jan. 24, 2023

    Accepted: May. 10, 2023

    Published Online: Jun. 25, 2023

    The Author Email: Guohua Hu (photonics@seu.edu.cn), Bo Liu (bo@nuist.edu.cn), Yinping Cui (cyp@seu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.486329

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