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    Journals >Advanced Photonics >Volume 2 >Issue 3 >Page 036002 > Article
    • Advanced Photonics
    • Vol. 2, Issue 3, 036002 (2020)
    Liquid crystal integrated metalens with tunable chromatic aberration
    Zhixiong Shen1,2, Shenghang Zhou1, Xinan Li1, Shijun Ge1,2..., Peng Chen1,2, Wei Hu1,2,* and Yanqing Lu1,*|Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Nanjing University, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing, China
  • 2Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute, Institute for Smart Liquid Crystals, Changshu, China
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    DOI: 10.1117/1.AP.2.3.036002 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Zhixiong Shen, Shenghang Zhou, Xinan Li, Shijun Ge, Peng Chen, Wei Hu, Yanqing Lu, "Liquid crystal integrated metalens with tunable chromatic aberration," Adv. Photon. 2, 036002 (2020) Copy Citation Text show less
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