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Photonics Research
Vol. 11, Issue 9, 1500 (2023)

All-plasmonic optical leaky-wave antenna with a low sidelobe level

Guang Zhu Zhou^1、2, Bao-Jie Chen², Geng-Bo Wu², Shi-Wei Qu^1、*, and Chi Hou Chan^2、3

Author Affiliations

¹School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu 611731, China

²State Key Laboratory of Terahertz and Millimeter Wave, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China

³Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China

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Guang Zhu Zhou, Bao-Jie Chen, Geng-Bo Wu, Shi-Wei Qu, Chi Hou Chan. All-plasmonic optical leaky-wave antenna with a low sidelobe level[J]. Photonics Research, 2023, 11(9): 1500 Copy Citation Text

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Guang Zhu Zhou, Bao-Jie Chen, Geng-Bo Wu, Shi-Wei Qu, Chi Hou Chan. All-plasmonic optical leaky-wave antenna with a low sidelobe level[J]. Photonics Research, 2023, 11(9): 1500

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