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Advanced Photonics
Vol. 6, Issue 5, 050503 (2024)

Singular dielectric nanolaser: breaking diffraction limits to atomic scale

Xuefeng Jiang^1,2,*

Author Affiliations

¹Seton Hall University, Department of Physics, South Orange, New Jersey, United States

²Binghamton University, Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Binghamton, New York, United States

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