Liquid crystal integrated metalens with tunable chromatic aberration

Zhixiong Shen; Shenghang Zhou; Xinan Li; Shijun Ge; Peng Chen; Wei Hu; Yanqing Lu

doi:10.1117/1.AP.2.3.036002

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