All-liquid-crystal and full-visible-band tunable polarimetry

Guang-Yao Wang; Han Cao; Zheng-Hao Guo; Chun-Ting Xu; Quan-Ming Chen; Wei Hu

doi:10.1117/1.APN.4.2.025001

Advanced Photonics Nexus, Volume. 4, Issue 2, 025001(2025)

All-liquid-crystal and full-visible-band tunable polarimetry

Guang-Yao Wang... Han Cao, Zheng-Hao Guo, Chun-Ting Xu*, Quan-Ming Chen and Wei Hu* |Show fewer author(s)

Nanjing University, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation, Nanjing, China

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Guang-Yao Wang, Han Cao, Zheng-Hao Guo, Chun-Ting Xu, Quan-Ming Chen, Wei Hu, "All-liquid-crystal and full-visible-band tunable polarimetry," Adv. Photon. Nexus 4, 025001 (2025)

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