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    Journals >Photonics Insights >Volume 4 >Issue 1 >Page R02 > Article
    • Photonics Insights
    • Vol. 4, Issue 1, R02 (2025)
    Exceptional-point optics with loss engineering
    Shaohua Dong1,†, Heng Wei2, Zhipeng Li2, Guangtao Cao3..., Kun Xue1, Yang Chen4,* and Cheng-Wei Qiu2,*|Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China
  • 2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • 3School of Physics and Electronic Sciences, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, China
  • 4Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior and Design of Materials, Department of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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    Shaohua Dong, Heng Wei, Zhipeng Li, Guangtao Cao, Kun Xue, Yang Chen, Cheng-Wei Qiu, "Exceptional-point optics with loss engineering," Photon. Insights 4, R02 (2025) Copy Citation Text show less
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