• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 7, Issue 10, 1134 (2019)
Benoit Debord1,2,*, Martin Maurel1,2, Frederic Gerome1,2, Luca Vincetti3..., Anton Husakou4 and Fetah Benabid1,2,5|Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1GPPMM Group, Xlim Research Institute, CNRS UMR 7252, University of Limoges, France
  • 2GLOphotonics S.A.S, 123 avenue Albert Thomas, 87060 Limoges, France
  • 3Department of Engineering “Enzo Ferrari”, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, I-41125 Modena, Italy
  • 4Max Born Institute, Max-Born-Str. 2a, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
  • 5e-mail: f.benabid@xlim.fr
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