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Advanced Photonics, Volume. 3, Issue 3, 035001(2021)

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Jia Tan^1、†, Shengliang Xu¹, Xu Han¹, Yueming Zhou^1、*, Min Li¹, Wei Cao¹, Qingbin Zhang^1、*, and Peixiang Lu^1,2、*

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¹Huazhong University of Science and Technology, School of Physics and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, China

²Wuhan Institute of Technology, Hubei Key Laboratory of Optical Information and Pattern Recognition, Wuhan, China

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Paper Information

Category: Letters

Received: Nov. 21, 2020

Accepted: Apr. 29, 2021

Posted: Apr. 30, 2021

Published Online: Jun. 3, 2021

The Author Email: Zhou Yueming (zhouymhust@hust.edu.cn), Zhang Qingbin (zhangqingbin@hust.edu.cn), Lu Peixiang (lupeixiang@hust.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1117/1.AP.3.3.035001

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