Gigahertz-rate-switchable wavefront shaping through integration of metasurfaces with photonic integrated circuit

Haozong Zhong; Yong Zheng; Jiacheng Sun; Zhizhang Wang; Rongbo Wu; Ling-en Zhang; Youting Liang; Qinyi Hua; Minghao Ning; Jitao Ji; Bin Fang; Lin Li; Tao Li; Ya Cheng; Shining Zhu

doi:10.1117/1.AP.6.1.016005

Advanced Photonics, Volume. 6, Issue 1, 016005(2024)

Gigahertz-rate-switchable wavefront shaping through integration of metasurfaces with photonic integrated circuit

Haozong Zhong^1、†, Yong Zheng¹, Jiacheng Sun², Zhizhang Wang², Rongbo Wu¹, Ling-en Zhang¹, Youting Liang¹, Qinyi Hua¹, Minghao Ning¹, Jitao Ji², Bin Fang³, Lin Li^1,4、*, Tao Li^2、*, Ya Cheng^1,4,5、*, and Shining Zhu^2、*

Author Affiliations

¹East China Normal University, School of Physics and Electronic Science, State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, Shanghai, China

²Nanjing University, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing, China

³China Jiliang University, College of Optical and Electronic Technology, Hangzhou, China

⁴Shanxi University, Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Taiyuan, China

⁵Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-Intense Laser Science, Shanghai, China

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