Metasurface doublet-integrated bidirectional grating antenna enabling enhanced wavelength-tuned beam steering

Woo-Bin Lee; Chul-Soon Im; Changyi Zhou; Bishal Bhandari; Duk-Yong Choi; Sang-Shin Lee

doi:10.1364/PRJ.433024

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