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Vol. 12, Issue 10, 2249 (2024)

Scalable cyclic transformation of orbital angular momentum modes based on a nonreciprocal Mach–Zehnder interferometer

Yu-Fang Yang^1,†, Ming-Yuan Chen^1,†, Feng-Pei Li¹, Ya-Ping Ruan¹..., Zhi-Xiang Li¹, Min Xiao^1,2, Han Zhang^1,3,4,* and Ke-Yu Xia^1,3,5,*|Show fewer author(s)

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¹National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

²Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA

³Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, China

⁴e-mail: zhanghan@nju.edu.cn

⁵e-mail: keyu.xia@nju.edu.cn

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Yu-Fang Yang, Ming-Yuan Chen, Feng-Pei Li, Ya-Ping Ruan, Zhi-Xiang Li, Min Xiao, Han Zhang, Ke-Yu Xia, "Scalable cyclic transformation of orbital angular momentum modes based on a nonreciprocal Mach–Zehnder interferometer," Photonics Res. 12, 2249 (2024) Copy Citation Text

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