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Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 9, 091301(2025)

Visible light computational spectrometer optimized by a genetic algorithm based on amorphous silicon metasurfaces

Yatong Hou¹, Chao Hu¹, Haoxiang Cui¹, Xingyan Zhao¹, Yang Qiu¹, Yuan Dong¹, Qize Zhong¹, Yuzhi Shi², Shaonan Zheng^1、*, and Ting Hu¹

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¹School of Microelectronics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 201800, China

²Institute of Precision Optical Engineering, School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

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Yatong Hou, Chao Hu, Haoxiang Cui, Xingyan Zhao, Yang Qiu, Yuan Dong, Qize Zhong, Yuzhi Shi, Shaonan Zheng, Ting Hu, "Visible light computational spectrometer optimized by a genetic algorithm based on amorphous silicon metasurfaces," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 091301 (2025)

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Paper Information

Category: Integrated Optics

Received: Feb. 24, 2025

Accepted: Apr. 28, 2025

Posted: Apr. 28, 2025

Published Online: Aug. 14, 2025

The Author Email: Shaonan Zheng (snzheng@shu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202523.091301

CSTR:32184.14.COL202523.091301

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