• Advanced Photonics Nexus
  • Vol. 3, Issue 6, 066002 (2024)
Neuton Li1,*, Jihua Zhang1,2, Shaun Lung1,3, Dragomir N. Neshev1, and Andrey A. Sukhorukov1,*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Australian National University, Research School of Physics, ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Canberra, Australia
  • 2Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, China
  • 3Friedrich-Schiller University, Institute of Applied Physics, Jena, Germany
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    Neuton Li, Jihua Zhang, Shaun Lung, Dragomir N. Neshev, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, "Uniformly polarized multi-output illumination by metasurfaces performing near-complete conversion of unpolarized light," Adv. Photon. Nexus 3, 066002 (2024) Copy Citation Text show less
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