Electrically controlled light focusing by a tunable metasurface using thin film lithium niobate

Haoyu Wang; Zhancheng Li; Wenwei Liu; Yuebian Zhang; Hua Cheng; Shuqi Chen

doi:10.3788/COL202422.123601

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 22, Issue 12, 123601(2024)

Electrically controlled light focusing by a tunable metasurface using thin film lithium niobate Editors' Pick

Haoyu Wang¹, Zhancheng Li^1、*, Wenwei Liu¹, Yuebian Zhang¹, Hua Cheng^1、**, and Shuqi Chen^1,2,3、***

¹Key Laboratory of Weak Light Nonlinear Photonics, Ministry of Education, School of Physics and TEDA Institute of Applied Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China

²School of Materials Science and Engineering, Smart Sensing Interdisciplinary Science Center, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China

³Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

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Haoyu Wang, Zhancheng Li, Wenwei Liu, Yuebian Zhang, Hua Cheng, Shuqi Chen, "Electrically controlled light focusing by a tunable metasurface using thin film lithium niobate," Chin. Opt. Lett. 22, 123601 (2024)

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