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Advanced Photonics
Vol. 3, Issue 4, 045002 (2021)

Optical superoscillatory waves without side lobes along a symmetric cut

Yanwen Hu¹, Shiwang Wang¹, Junhui Jia¹, Shenhe Fu^1、2、*, Hao Yin^1、2, Zhen Li^1、2、*, and Zhenqiang Chen^1、2

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¹Jinan University, Department of Optoelectronic Engineering, Guangzhou, China

²Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communications, Guangzhou, China

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Yanwen Hu, Shiwang Wang, Junhui Jia, Shenhe Fu, Hao Yin, Zhen Li, Zhenqiang Chen. Optical superoscillatory waves without side lobes along a symmetric cut[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2021, 3(4): 045002 Copy Citation Text

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