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Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays, Volume. 38, Issue 1, 24(2023)

Generation and switching of arbitrary vector vortex beams on two hybrid-order Poincaré spheres with different orders based on liquid crystal device

Xin-yi ZHOU¹, Yi-de YUAN², Shi-yuan ZHANG¹, Li-shuang YAO¹, Xiang-sheng XIE¹, fan FAN², Shuang-chun WEN², and Ya-qin ZHOU^1,2、*

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¹College of Science，Shantou University，Shantou 515063，China

²School of Physics and Electronics，Hunan University，Changsha 410082，China

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Xin-yi ZHOU, Yi-de YUAN, Shi-yuan ZHANG, Li-shuang YAO, Xiang-sheng XIE, fan FAN, Shuang-chun WEN, Ya-qin ZHOU. Generation and switching of arbitrary vector vortex beams on two hybrid-order Poincaré spheres with different orders based on liquid crystal device[J]. Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays, 2023, 38(1): 24

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Category: Research Articles

Received: Sep. 29, 2022

Accepted: --

Published Online: Feb. 20, 2023

The Author Email: Ya-qin ZHOU (yqzhou@stu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.37188/CJLCD.2022-0319

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