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Advanced Photonics
Vol. 5, Issue 3, 036001 (2023)

Generation of time-varying orbital angular momentum beams with space-time-coding digital metasurface

Jingxin Zhang¹, Peixing Li², Ray C. C. Cheung², Alex M. H. Wong^2、3、*, and Jensen Li^1、*

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¹The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, Hong Kong, China

²City University of Hong Kong, Department of Electrical Engineering, Hong Kong, China

³City University of Hong Kong, State Key Laboratory of Terahertz and Millimeter Waves, Hong Kong, China

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Jingxin Zhang, Peixing Li, Ray C. C. Cheung, Alex M. H. Wong, Jensen Li. Generation of time-varying orbital angular momentum beams with space-time-coding digital metasurface[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2023, 5(3): 036001 Copy Citation Text

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