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Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 12, 1473(2019)

Hybridization of different types of exceptional points

Jinhyeok Ryu¹, Sunjae Gwak¹, Jaewon Kim^1,2, Hyeon-Hye Yu¹, Ji-Hwan Kim¹, Ji-Won Lee^1,3, Chang-Hwan Yi^1,4、†,*, and Chil-Min Kim^1,5、†,*

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¹Department of Emerging Materials Science, DGIST, Daegu 42988, South Korea

²Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Ilmenau, D-98693 Ilmenau, Germany

³Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Suwon 16674, South Korea

⁴e-mail: innissan@dgist.ac.kr

⁵e-mail: chmkim@dgist.ac.kr

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Paper Information

Category: Physical Optics

Received: Jul. 8, 2019

Accepted: Oct. 14, 2019

Published Online: Nov. 21, 2019

The Author Email: Chang-Hwan Yi (innissan@dgist.ac.kr), Chil-Min Kim (chmkim@dgist.ac.kr)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.001473

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