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Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 11, 1880(2023)

Arbitrary terahertz chirality construction and flexible manipulation enabled by anisotropic liquid crystal coupled chiral metasurfaces

Xinhao Jiang¹, Yunyun Ji^1,2、*, Fei Fan^1,3,4, Songlin Jiang¹, Zhiyu Tan¹, Huijun Zhao¹, Jierong Cheng¹, and Shengjiang Chang^1,3,5

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¹Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China

²Tianjin Key Laboratory of Micro-scale Optical Information Science and Technology, Tianjin 300350, China

³Tianjin Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Sensor and Sensing Network Technology, Tianjin 300350, China

⁴e-mail: fanfei@nankai.edu.cn

⁵e-mail: sjchang@nankai.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Optical Devices

Received: Jul. 20, 2023

Accepted: Sep. 1, 2023

Published Online: Oct. 13, 2023

The Author Email: Yunyun Ji (jiyunyun@nankai.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.501047

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