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Photonics Research
Vol. 13, Issue 1, 49 (2025)

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Haixiang Ma^1,†, Fu Feng^1,2,5,†,*, Jie Qiao¹..., Jiaan Gan³ and Xiaocong Yuan^1,4,6,*|Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹Research Center for Frontier Fundamental Studies, Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou 311100, China

²State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China

³Institute of Modern Optics, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Micro-scale Optical Information Science and Technology, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China

⁴Nanophotonics Research Center, Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics & State Key Laboratory of Radio Frequency Heterogeneous Integration, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518061, China

⁵e-mail: fufeng@zhejianglab.com

⁶e-mail: xcyuan@zhejianglab.com

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