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Advanced Photonics Nexus, Volume. 3, Issue 6, 066001(2024)

Effective sorting of fractional optical vortex modes

Zhengyang Mao1,†... Haigang Liu1,*, and Xianfeng Chen12,* |Show fewer author(s)

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¹Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Physics and Astronomy, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai, China

²Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai, China

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Paper Information

Category: Research Articles

Received: Jun. 18, 2024

Accepted: Aug. 27, 2024

Published Online: Sep. 18, 2024

The Author Email: Liu Haigang (liuhaigang@sjtu.edu.cn), Chen Xianfeng (xfchen@sjtu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1117/1.APN.3.6.066001

CSTR:32397.14.1.APN.3.6.066001

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