Arbitrary cylindrical vector beam generation enabled by polarization-selective Gouy phase shifter

Junliang Jia; Kepeng Zhang; Guangwei Hu; Maping Hu; Tong Tong; Quanquan Mu; Hong Gao; Fuli Li; Cheng-Wei Qiu; Pei Zhang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.419368

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