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Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 5, 053604(2025)

Symmetry-breaking-free manipulation of polarization singularity via Dirac points and bound states in the continuums

Ming Kang1、* and Jing Chen2、**
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  • 1College of Physics and Materials Science, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China
  • 2School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
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    Category: Nanophotonics, Metamaterials, and Plasmonics

    Received: Oct. 23, 2024

    Accepted: Dec. 12, 2024

    Posted: Dec. 12, 2024

    Published Online: Apr. 30, 2025

    The Author Email: Ming Kang (mingkang@mail.nankai.edu.cn), Jing Chen (jchen4@nankai.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/COL202523.053604

    CSTR:32184.14.COL202523.053604

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