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Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 8, 862(2019)

Exceptional points of any order in a single, lossy waveguide beam splitter by photon-number-resolved detection Editors' Pick

Mario A. Quiroz-Juárez1, Armando Perez-Leija2,3, Konrad Tschernig2,3, Blas M. Rodríguez-Lara4,5, Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza6, Kurt Busch2,3, Yogesh N. Joglekar7,8、*, and Roberto de J. León-Montiel1,9、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70-543, 04510 Cd. Mx., Mexico
  • 2Max-Born-Institut, Max-Born-Straße 2A, 12489 Berlin, Germany
  • 3Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Physik, AG Theoretische Optik & Photonik, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
  • 4Tecnológico de Monterrey, Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Ave. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501, 64849 Monterrey, N.L., Mexico
  • 5Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Calle Luis Enrique Erro No. 1, Sta. Ma. Tonantzintla, Pue. CP 72840, Mexico
  • 6Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
  • 7Department of Physics, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA
  • 8e-mail: yojoglek@iupui.edu
  • 9e-mail: roberto.leon@nucleares.unam.mx
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    Mario A. Quiroz-Juárez, Armando Perez-Leija, Konrad Tschernig, Blas M. Rodríguez-Lara, Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza, Kurt Busch, Yogesh N. Joglekar, Roberto de J. León-Montiel, "Exceptional points of any order in a single, lossy waveguide beam splitter by photon-number-resolved detection," Photonics Res. 7, 862 (2019)

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    Category: Quantum Optics

    Received: May. 17, 2019

    Accepted: Jun. 13, 2019

    Published Online: Jul. 17, 2019

    The Author Email: Yogesh N. Joglekar (yojoglek@iupui.edu), Roberto de J. León-Montiel (roberto.leon@nucleares.unam.mx)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.000862

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