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    Journals >Photonics Research >Volume 12 >Issue 10 >Page 2078 > Article
    • Photonics Research
    • Vol. 12, Issue 10, 2078 (2024)
    Topological edge states in a photonic Floquet insulator with unpaired Dirac cones
    Hua Zhong1, Yaroslav V. Kartashov2, Yongdong Li1, Ming Li3, and Yiqi Zhang1,*
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  • 1Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices, Ministry of Education, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
  • 2Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 108840, Russia
  • 3State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710119, China
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.524824 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Hua Zhong, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Yongdong Li, Ming Li, Yiqi Zhang, "Topological edge states in a photonic Floquet insulator with unpaired Dirac cones," Photonics Res. 12, 2078 (2024) Copy Citation Text show less
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