• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 8, Issue 6, 760 (2020)
Kaixuan Zhang1、3, Yizhu Zhang1、2、5、*, Xincheng Wang4, Tian-Min Yan1、6、*, and Y. H. Jiang1、3、4、7、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201210, China
  • 2Center for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Key Laboratory of Opto-electronics Information and Technical Science, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  • 3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 4ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
  • 5e-mail: zhangyz@sari.ac.cn
  • 6e-mail: yantm@sari.ac.cn
  • 7e-mail: jiangyh@sari.ac.cn
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