Experimental investigation of the uncertainty principle for radial degrees of freedom

Zhihe Zhang; Dongkai Zhang; Xiaodong Qiu; Yuanyuan Chen; Sonja Franke-Arnold; Lixiang Chen

doi:10.1364/PRJ.443691

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