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Photonics Research
Vol. 7, Issue 6, 705 (2019)

Observation of polarization topological singular lines

Guan-Lin Zhang¹, Chenghou Tu¹, Yongnan Li^1、2, and Hui-Tian Wang^3、4、*

Author Affiliations

¹MOE Key Laboratory of Weak Light Nonlinear Photonics and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China

²e-mail: liyongnan@nankai.edu.cn

³National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

⁴Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

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