On-chip terahertz orbital angular momentum demultiplexer

Xiaohan Jiang; Wanying Liu; Quan Xu; Yuanhao Lang; Yikai Fu; Fan Huang; Haitao Dai; Yanfeng Li; Xueqian Zhang; Jianqiang Gu; Jiaguang Han; Weili Zhang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.519701

Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 5, 1044(2024)

On-chip terahertz orbital angular momentum demultiplexer Editors' Pick

Xiaohan Jiang1,†... Wanying Liu1,†, Quan Xu1,*, Yuanhao Lang1, Yikai Fu2, Fan Huang1, Haitao Dai2, Yanfeng Li1, Xueqian Zhang1, Jianqiang Gu1, Jiaguang Han1,3,5, and Weili Zhang46 |Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹Center for Terahertz Waves, College of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, and Key Laboratory of Optoelectronics Information and Technology (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

²Tianjin Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Materials Physics and Preparing Technology, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

³Guangxi Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Processing, School of Optoelectronic Engineering, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, China

⁴School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, USA

⁵e-mail: jiaghan@tju.edu.cn

⁶e-mail: weili.zhang@okstate.edu

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Xiaohan Jiang, Wanying Liu, Quan Xu, Yuanhao Lang, Yikai Fu, Fan Huang, Haitao Dai, Yanfeng Li, Xueqian Zhang, Jianqiang Gu, Jiaguang Han, Weili Zhang, "On-chip terahertz orbital angular momentum demultiplexer," Photonics Res. 12, 1044 (2024)

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