Twisted bilayer meta-device for on-demand terahertz polarization filtering

Hui Li; Chenhui Zhao; Wenhui Xu; Jie Li; Chenglong Zheng; Qi Tan; Chunyu Song; Hang Xu; Yun Shen; Jianquan Yao

doi:10.1364/PRJ.554358

Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 5, 1116(2025)

Twisted bilayer meta-device for on-demand terahertz polarization filtering

Hui Li1... Chenhui Zhao2, Wenhui Xu1, Jie Li3, Chenglong Zheng4, Qi Tan1, Chunyu Song1, Hang Xu1,6,*, Yun Shen2,7,*, and Jianquan Yao1,58,* |Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronics Information Technology (Tianjin University), Ministry of Education, School of Precision Instruments and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

²Department of Physics, School of Physics and Materials Science, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China

³Sichuan Meteorological Optoelectronic Sensor Technology and Application Engineering Research Center, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu 610225, China

⁴Key Laboratory of Material Physics, Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Microelectronics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China

⁵Key Laboratory of Photonic-Electronic Integration and Communication-Sensing Convergence (Southwest Jiaotong University), Ministry of Education, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610097, China

⁶e-mail: xh_931119@tju.edu.cn

⁷e-mail: shenyun@ncu.edu.cn

⁸e-mail: jqyao@tju.edu.cn

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