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Photonics Research
Vol. 11, Issue 4, 569 (2023)

Applications for wavelength division multiplexers based on topological photonic crystals

Yuhang Ruan¹, Xinyue Qian², Hai-Xiao Wang³, Zheng-Da Hu¹..., Yuting Yang^2,5,*, Jicheng Wang^1,4,6,*, Xiaopeng Shen² and Yixiang Wang¹|Show fewer author(s)

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¹School of Science, Jiangsu Provincial Research Center of Light Industrial Optoelectronic Engineering and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China

²School of Materials Science and Physics, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China

³School of Physical Science and Technology, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China

⁴State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China

⁵e-mail: yangyt@cumt.edu.cn

⁶e-mail: jcwang@jiangnan.edu.cn

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Yuhang Ruan, Xinyue Qian, Hai-Xiao Wang, Zheng-Da Hu, Yuting Yang, Jicheng Wang, Xiaopeng Shen, Yixiang Wang, "Applications for wavelength division multiplexers based on topological photonic crystals," Photonics Res. 11, 569 (2023) Copy Citation Text

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