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Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 11, 1975(2023)

Large-area ultracompact pixelated aluminum-wire-grid-based metamaterials for Vis-NIR full-Stokes polarization imaging

Yuanyi Fan^1,2, Jinkui Chu^1,2,3、*, Ran Zhang^1,2,4、*, Chuanlong Guan^1,2, and Jianying Liu^1,2

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¹State Key Laboratory of High-performance Precision Manufacturing, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China

²Key Laboratory for Micro/Nano Technology and System of Liaoning Province, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China

³e-mail: chujk@dlut.edu.cn

⁴e-mail: zhangr@dlut.edu.cn

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Category: Optical Devices

Received: May. 4, 2023

Accepted: Sep. 7, 2023

Published Online: Nov. 3, 2023

The Author Email: Jinkui Chu (chujk@dlut.edu.cn), Ran Zhang (zhangr@dlut.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.494728

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laser devices and laser physics

Lasers and Laser Optics

laser manufacturing

Instrumentation, Measurement and Metrology