• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 8, Issue 7, 1148 (2020)
Binbin Yu1、†, Jing Wen1、4、†,*, Lei Chen1, Leihong Zhang1, Yulong Fan2, Bo Dai1, Saima Kanwal1, Dangyuan Lei2, and Dawei Zhang1、3、5、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Engineering Research Center of Optical Instrument and Systems, Ministry of Education and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical System, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
  • 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • 3Shanghai Institute of Intelligent Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
  • 4e-mail: jwen@usst.edu.cn
  • 5e-mail: dwzhang@usst.edu.cn
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    Binbin Yu, Jing Wen, Lei Chen, Leihong Zhang, Yulong Fan, Bo Dai, Saima Kanwal, Dangyuan Lei, Dawei Zhang. Polarization-independent highly efficient generation of Airy optical beams with dielectric metasurfaces[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(7): 1148 Copy Citation Text show less
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