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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 23, Issue 4, 041301 (2025)

Experimental demonstration of a performance-enhanced optical quantizer based on adjoint shape optimization

Yijun He, Jifang Qiu^*, Bowen Zhang, Qiuyan Li..., Suping Jiao, Yan Li and Jian Wu|Show fewer author(s)

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School of Electronic Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China

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Yijun He, Jifang Qiu, Bowen Zhang, Qiuyan Li, Suping Jiao, Yan Li, Jian Wu, "Experimental demonstration of a performance-enhanced optical quantizer based on adjoint shape optimization," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 041301 (2025) Copy Citation Text

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