Broadband high-efficiency polymerized liquid crystal metasurfaces with spin-multiplexed functionalities in the visible

Xinjian Lu; Xiaoyin Li; Yinghui Guo; Mingbo Pu; Jiangyu Wang; Yaxin Zhang; Xiong Li; Xiaoliang Ma; Xiangang Luo

doi:10.1364/PRJ.452272

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