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Advanced Photonics, Volume. 3, Issue 4, 045002(2021)

Optical superoscillatory waves without side lobes along a symmetric cut

Yanwen Hu¹, Shiwang Wang¹, Junhui Jia¹, Shenhe Fu^1,2、*, Hao Yin^1,2, Zhen Li^1,2、*, and Zhenqiang Chen^1,2

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¹Jinan University, Department of Optoelectronic Engineering, Guangzhou, China

²Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communications, Guangzhou, China

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Paper Information

Category: Letters

Received: May. 30, 2020

Accepted: May. 28, 2021

Posted: May. 31, 2021

Published Online: Jun. 25, 2021

The Author Email: Fu Shenhe (fushenhe@jnu.edu.cn), Li Zhen (ailz268@126.com)

DOI:10.1117/1.AP.3.4.045002

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