Optical mesh lattices with PT symmetry
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Mohammad-Ali Miri,1,* Alois Regensburger,2,3 Ulf Peschel,2 and Demetrios N. Christodoulides1 1CREOL/College of Optics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA 2Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany 3Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, 91058 Erlangen, Germany (Received 7 June 2012; published 3 August 2012)
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