Integrated structured light manipulation

Jian Wang; Kang Li; Zhiqiang Quan

doi:10.3788/PI.2024.R05

Photonics Insights, Volume. 3, Issue 3, R05(2024)

Integrated structured light manipulation On the Cover

Jian Wang^1,2、*, Kang Li^1,2, and Zhiqiang Quan^1,2

¹Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

²Optics Valley Laboratory, Wuhan, China

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