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Vol. 13, Issue 5, 1365 (2025)

Symmetric and asymmetric Hall effect-like splitting of optical Stokes skyrmions via a hybrid multi-zone filter

Tian Xia¹, Jia Ma¹, Zhenwei Xie^1,2,*, and Xiaocong Yuan^1,3,*

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¹Nanophotonics Research Centre, Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics & State Key Laboratory of Radio Frequency Heterogeneous Integration, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China

²e-mail: ayst31415926@szu.edu.cn

³e-mail: xcyuan@szu.edu.cn

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