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Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 5, A23(2018)

Parity-time-symmetric whispering-gallery mode nanoparticle sensor [Invited]

Weijian Chen¹, Jing Zhang^1,2, Bo Peng¹, Şahin Kaya Özdemir¹, Xudong Fan³, and Lan Yang^1、*

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¹Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA

²Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

³Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA

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Special Issue: NON-HERMITIAN PHOTONICS IN COMPLEX MEDIA: PT-SYMMETRY AND BEYOND

Received: Oct. 12, 2017

Accepted: Dec. 13, 2017

Published Online: Jul. 18, 2018

The Author Email: Lan Yang (yang@seas.wustl.edu)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000A23

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