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Photonics Research
Vol. 6, Issue 11, 1056 (2018)

Broadband terahertz rotator with an all-dielectric metasurface

Quanlong Yang¹, Xieyu Chen¹, Quan Xu¹, Chunxiu Tian²..., Yuehong Xu¹, Longqing Cong³, Xueqian Zhang¹, Yanfeng Li¹, Caihong Zhang⁴, Xixiang Zhang², Jiaguang Han^1,* and Weili Zhang^1,5,6|Show fewer author(s)

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¹Center for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, and the Key Laboratory of Optoelectronics Information and Technology Tianjin, Ministry of Education of China, Tianjin 300072, China

²Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia

³Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637371, Singapore

⁴Research Institute of Superconductor Electronics (RISE), School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

⁵School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, USA

⁶e-mail: weili.zhang@okstate.edu

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Quanlong Yang, Xieyu Chen, Quan Xu, Chunxiu Tian, Yuehong Xu, Longqing Cong, Xueqian Zhang, Yanfeng Li, Caihong Zhang, Xixiang Zhang, Jiaguang Han, Weili Zhang, "Broadband terahertz rotator with an all-dielectric metasurface," Photonics Res. 6, 1056 (2018) Copy Citation Text

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Quanlong Yang, Xieyu Chen, Quan Xu, Chunxiu Tian, Yuehong Xu, Longqing Cong, Xueqian Zhang, Yanfeng Li, Caihong Zhang, Xixiang Zhang, Jiaguang Han, Weili Zhang, "Broadband terahertz rotator with an all-dielectric metasurface," Photonics Res. 6, 1056 (2018)

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