Microstructure Lasers Based on Parity-Time Symmetry and Supersymmetry

Ting Fu; Yufei Wang; Xueyou Wang; Jingxuan Chen; Xuyan Zhou; Wanhua Zheng

doi:10.3788/CJL202148.1201005

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