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Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 8, 2257(2025)

Dielectric quarter-waveplate metasurfaces for longitudinally tunable manipulation of high-order Poincaré beams

Teng Ma1, Kaixin Zhao1, Chuanfu Cheng1, Manna Gu1, Qingrui Dong1, Haoyan Zhou1, Song Gao2, Duk-Yong Choi3, Chunxiang Liu1,4、*, and Chen Cheng1,5、*
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  • 1School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
  • 2School of Information Science and Engineering and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Network Based Intelligent Computing, University of Jinan, Jinan 250022, China
  • 3Laser Physics Centre, Research School of Physics, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
  • 4e-mail: liuchunxiang@sdnu.edu.cn
  • 5e-mail: drccheng@sdnu.edu.cn
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    Paper Information

    Category: Nanophotonics and Photonic Crystals

    Received: Dec. 29, 2024

    Accepted: May. 5, 2025

    Published Online: Jul. 31, 2025

    The Author Email: Chunxiang Liu (liuchunxiang@sdnu.edu.cn), Chen Cheng (drccheng@sdnu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.553950

    CSTR:32188.14.PRJ.553950

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