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Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 4, 968(2025)

Observation of multiple quasi-bound states in the continuum by symmetry breaking in a photonic crystal slab

Shuangli Li¹, Lujun Huang^1,2,3、*, Haozong Zhong¹, Minghao Ning¹, Ling-En Zhang¹, Yaling Yin^1,4、*, Ya Cheng^1,2, and Lin Li^1,2,5、*

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¹State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China

²Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

³e-mail: ljhuang@phy.ecnu.edu.cn

⁴e-mail: ylyin@phy.ecnu.edu.cn

⁵e-mail: lli@lps.ecnu.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Nanophotonics and Photonic Crystals

Received: Nov. 11, 2024

Accepted: Feb. 1, 2025

Published Online: Mar. 28, 2025

The Author Email: Lujun Huang (ljhuang@phy.ecnu.edu.cn), Yaling Yin (ylyin@phy.ecnu.edu.cn), Lin Li (lli@lps.ecnu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.547681

CSTR:32188.14.PRJ.547681

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