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Vol. 23, Issue 6, 061901 (2025)

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Boyu Xu^1,2,3, Xiao Xiong⁴, Rui Niu¹, Guangyuan Qu⁵..., Chunhua Dong^1,2,3, Guang-Can Guo^1,2,3 and Xifeng Ren^1,2,3,*|Show fewer author(s)

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¹CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

²CAS Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information & Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

³Hefei National Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230088, China

⁴State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

⁵School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

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Boyu Xu, Xiao Xiong, Rui Niu, Guangyuan Qu, Chunhua Dong, Guang-Can Guo, Xifeng Ren, "Giant enhancement of second-harmonic generation from microcavity-integrated monolayer WS₂," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 061901 (2025) Copy Citation Text

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Boyu Xu, Xiao Xiong, Rui Niu, Guangyuan Qu, Chunhua Dong, Guang-Can Guo, Xifeng Ren, "Giant enhancement of second-harmonic generation from microcavity-integrated monolayer WS₂," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 061901 (2025)

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