On-chip terahertz orbital angular momentum demultiplexer

Xiaohan Jiang; Wanying Liu; Quan Xu; Yuanhao Lang; Yikai Fu; Fan Huang; Haitao Dai; Yanfeng Li; Xueqian Zhang; Jianqiang Gu; Jiaguang Han; Weili Zhang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.519701

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