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Gaining with loss

Nature Photonics volume 11, pages 742–743 (2017)Cite this article

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Nature Photonics spoke to Demetrios Christodoulides, of CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics, University of Central Florida, about the birth of the parity–time-symmetry concepts in optics and the challenges and prospects on the path ahead.

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