High efficiency all-dielectric pixelated metasurface for near-infrared full-Stokes polarization detection

Chong Zhang; Jingpei Hu; Yangeng Dong; Aijun Zeng; Huijie Huang; Chinhua Wang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.415342

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