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Photonics Research
Vol. 12, Issue 5, 1036 (2024)

Nonlinear generation of vector beams by using a compact nonlinear fork grating

Qian Yang^1,†, Yangfeifei Yang^1,†, Hao Li¹, Haigang Liu^1,3,*, and Xianfeng Chen^1,2,4,*

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

²Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai 201315, China

³e-mail: liuhaigang@sjtu.edu.cn

⁴e-mail: xfchen@sjtu.edu.cn

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