All-dielectric terahertz metasurface for linearly-polarized multichannel transmission and superposition states of spherical and vortex waves

Fuyu Li; Yuanxun Li; Tingting Tang; Yongcheng Lu; Xinyan Liu; Yulong Liao; Qiye Wen

doi:10.1364/PRJ.477381

Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 3, 485(2023)

All-dielectric terahertz metasurface for linearly-polarized multichannel transmission and superposition states of spherical and vortex waves Spotlight on Optics

Fuyu Li^1,3、*, Yuanxun Li^1,4、*, Tingting Tang², Yongcheng Lu¹, Xinyan Liu¹, Yulong Liao¹, and Qiye Wen¹

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China

²Information Materials and Device Applications Key Laboratory of Sichuan Provincial Universities, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu 610225, China

³e-mail: f_y_lee@163.com

⁴e-mail: liyuanxun@uestc.edu.cn

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Category: Surface Optics and Plasmonics

Received: Oct. 4, 2022

Accepted: Nov. 16, 2022

Published Online: Feb. 28, 2023

The Author Email: Fuyu Li (f_y_lee@163.com), Yuanxun Li (liyuanxun@uestc.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.477381

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