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Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 9, 1542(2023)

Amplitude gradient-based metasurfaces for off-chip terahertz wavefront shaping

Wen Lyu^1、†, Jianzhi Huang^2、†, Shengqi Yin², Xukang Wang¹, Jiaming Liu¹, Xu Fang^2,3、*, and Hua Geng^1,4、*

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¹Department of Automation, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

²School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK

³e-mail: x.fang@soton.ac.uk

⁴e-mail: genghua@tsinghua.edu.cn

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Category: Optical Devices

Received: May. 24, 2023

Accepted: Jun. 22, 2023

Published Online: Aug. 28, 2023

The Author Email: Xu Fang (x.fang@soton.ac.uk), Hua Geng (genghua@tsinghua.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.496366

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