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    Journals >Photonics Research >Volume 11 >Issue 11 >Page 1959 > Article
    • Photonics Research
    • Vol. 11, Issue 11, 1959 (2023)
    On-chip sorting of orbital angular momentum beams using Bloch surface wave structures
    Nannan Li1、†, Qi Zou1、†, Yizhi Lan1, Yaqi Wang1, Jun Zhang1, Michael Somekh1、2、3、4、*, Changjun Min1、5、*, Fu Feng1、2、6、*, and Xiaocong Yuan1、2、7、*
    Author Affiliations
  • 1Nanophotonics Research Center, Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics & State Key Laboratory of Radio Frequency Heterogeneous Integration, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
  • 2Research Center for Humanoid Sensing, Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou 311100, China
  • 3Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
  • 4e-mail: michael.somekh@nottingham.ac.uk
  • 5e-mail: cjmin@szu.edu.cn
  • 6e-mail: fufeng@zhejianglab.com
  • 7e-mail: xcyuan@szu.edu.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.502760 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Nannan Li, Qi Zou, Yizhi Lan, Yaqi Wang, Jun Zhang, Michael Somekh, Changjun Min, Fu Feng, Xiaocong Yuan, "On-chip sorting of orbital angular momentum beams using Bloch surface wave structures," Photonics Res. 11, 1959 (2023) Copy Citation Text show less
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