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Advanced Photonics Nexus, Volume. 4, Issue 5, 056003(2025)

Wide-field mid-infrared cavity-enhanced upconversion imaging

Yue Song¹, Jia'nan Fang^1,2, Wen Zhang¹, Yijing Li¹, Ben Sun¹, Zhiwei Jia³, Kun Huang^1,2,4、*, and Heping Zeng^1,2,5,6

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¹East China Normal University, State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, and Hainan Institute, Shanghai, China

²Chongqing Institute of East China Normal University, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Precision Optics, Chongqing, China

³Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Semiconductors, Laboratory of Solid-State Optoelectronics Information Technology, Beijing, China

⁴Shanxi University, Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Taiyuan, China

⁵Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai, China

⁶Chongqing Institute for Brain and Intelligence, Guangyang Bay Laboratory, Chongqing, China

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Category: Research Articles

Received: Apr. 23, 2025

Accepted: Jul. 14, 2025

Published Online: Aug. 8, 2025

The Author Email: Kun Huang (khuang@lps.ecnu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1117/1.APN.4.5.056003

CSTR:32397.14.1.APN.4.5.056003

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