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Advanced Photonics
Vol. 6, Issue 5, 056010 (2024)

Versatile cascade migrating photon avalanches for full-spectrum extremely nonlinear emissions and super-resolution microscopy

Hui Wu^1,†, Binxiong Pan¹, Qi Zhao¹, Chenyi Wang¹..., Rui Pu¹, Chang Liu¹, Zeheng Chen¹, Zewei Luo², Jing Huang¹, Wei Wei², Tongsheng Chen² and Qiuqiang Zhan^1,3,*|Show fewer author(s)

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¹South China Normal University, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, Guangzhou, China

²South China Normal University, College of Biophotonics, MOE Key Laboratory & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laser Life Science, Guangzhou, China

³South China Normal University, Guangdong Engineering Research Centre of Optoelectronic Intelligent Information Perception, Guangzhou, China

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Hui Wu, Binxiong Pan, Qi Zhao, Chenyi Wang, Rui Pu, Chang Liu, Zeheng Chen, Zewei Luo, Jing Huang, Wei Wei, Tongsheng Chen, Qiuqiang Zhan, "Versatile cascade migrating photon avalanches for full-spectrum extremely nonlinear emissions and super-resolution microscopy," Adv. Photon. 6, 056010 (2024) Copy Citation Text

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Hui Wu, Binxiong Pan, Qi Zhao, Chenyi Wang, Rui Pu, Chang Liu, Zeheng Chen, Zewei Luo, Jing Huang, Wei Wei, Tongsheng Chen, Qiuqiang Zhan, "Versatile cascade migrating photon avalanches for full-spectrum extremely nonlinear emissions and super-resolution microscopy," Adv. Photon. 6, 056010 (2024)

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