Inverse-designed Jones matrix metasurfaces for high-performance meta-polarizers

Zhi-Qiang Wang; Feng-Jun Li; Qian-Mei Deng; Zhou Wan; Xiangping Li; Zi-Lan Deng

doi:10.3788/COL202422.023601

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 22, Issue 2, 023601(2024)

Inverse-designed Jones matrix metasurfaces for high-performance meta-polarizers

Zhi-Qiang Wang, Feng-Jun Li, Qian-Mei Deng, Zhou Wan, Xiangping Li, and Zi-Lan Deng^*

Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communications, Institute of Photonics Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China

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Zhi-Qiang Wang, Feng-Jun Li, Qian-Mei Deng, Zhou Wan, Xiangping Li, Zi-Lan Deng, "Inverse-designed Jones matrix metasurfaces for high-performance meta-polarizers," Chin. Opt. Lett. 22, 023601 (2024)

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