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Vol. 7, Issue 1, 016002 (2025)

Waveguide superlattices with artificial gauge field toward colorless and low-crosstalk ultrahigh-density photonic integration | On the Cover

Xuelin Zhang¹, Jiangbing Du^1,*, Ke Xu², and Zuyuan He¹

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¹Shanghai Jiao Tong University, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai, China

²Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Shenzhen, China

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