• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 10, Issue 2, 574 (2022)
Flore Hentinger1, Melissa Hedir1, Bruno Garbin1, Mathias Marconi2, Li Ge3、4, Fabrice Raineri1、5, Juan A. Levenson1, and Alejandro M. Yacomotti1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91120 Palaiseau, France
  • 2Université Côte d’Azur, Institut de Physique de Nice, CNRS-UMR 7010, Sophia Antipolis, France
  • 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Staten Island, CUNY, Staten Island, New York 10314, USA
  • 4Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, New York 10016, USA
  • 5Université de Paris, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France
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    Flore Hentinger, Melissa Hedir, Bruno Garbin, Mathias Marconi, Li Ge, Fabrice Raineri, Juan A. Levenson, Alejandro M. Yacomotti. Direct observation of zero modes in a non-Hermitian optical nanocavity array[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(2): 574 Copy Citation Text show less
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    Flore Hentinger, Melissa Hedir, Bruno Garbin, Mathias Marconi, Li Ge, Fabrice Raineri, Juan A. Levenson, Alejandro M. Yacomotti. Direct observation of zero modes in a non-Hermitian optical nanocavity array[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(2): 574
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