Talbot effect in anti-PT symmetric synthetic photonic lattices

Zhaofeng Liu; Siwei Tang; Zengrun Wen; Yuanmei Gao; Yangjian Cai; Liren Zheng

doi:10.3788/COL202422.031901

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 22, Issue 3, 031901(2024)

Talbot effect in anti-PT symmetric synthetic photonic lattices

Zhaofeng Liu¹, Siwei Tang¹, Zengrun Wen^1、*, Yuanmei Gao¹, Yangjian Cai^1,2、**, and Liren Zheng^1、***

¹Shandong Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulations & Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Device, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China

²School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China

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