High-efficiency multi-channel focusing and imaging enabled by polarization-frequency multiplexing non-interleaved metasurfaces

Xunjun He; Mingzhong Wu; Guangjun Lu; Ying Zhang; Zhaoxin Geng

doi:10.1364/PRJ.545173

Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 4, 976(2025)

High-efficiency multi-channel focusing and imaging enabled by polarization-frequency multiplexing non-interleaved metasurfaces

Xunjun He¹, Mingzhong Wu¹, Guangjun Lu^2、*, Ying Zhang³, and Zhaoxin Geng^4,5

Author Affiliations

¹School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China

²Guangxi Key Laboratory of Brain-Inspired Computing and Intelligent Chips, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China

³College of Science, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China

⁴School of Information Engineering, Minzu University of China, Beijing 100081, China

⁵e-mail: zxgeng@muc.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Optical Devices

Received: Oct. 16, 2024

Accepted: Jan. 21, 2025

Published Online: Mar. 28, 2025

The Author Email: Guangjun Lu (lv-guangjun@163.com)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.545173

CSTR:32188.14.PRJ.545173

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