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Photonics Research
Vol. 5, Issue 6, 684 (2017)

Tunable spin splitting of Laguerre–Gaussian beams in graphene metamaterials

Wenguo Zhu^1、2、3, Mengjiang Jiang^2、4, Heyuan Guan^1、5, Jianhui Yu², Huihui Lu², Jun Zhang⁴, and Zhe Chen⁴

Author Affiliations

¹Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communications, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China

²Department of Optoelectronic Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China

³e-mail: zhuwg88@163.com

⁴Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information and Sensing Technologies of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China

⁵e-mail: ttguanheyuan@jnu.edu.cn

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DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.5.000684 Cite this Article Set citation alerts

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