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Vol. 12, Issue 10, 2148 (2024)

Active broadband unidirectional focusing of terahertz surface plasmons based on a liquid-crystal-integrated on-chip metadevice | Editors' Pick

Yi-Ming Wang¹, Fei Fan^1,2,*, Hui-Jun Zhao¹, Jing Liu²..., Yun-Yun Ji², Jie-Rong Cheng¹ and Sheng-Jiang Chang²|Show fewer author(s)

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¹Tianjin Key Laboratory of Micro-scale Optical Information Science and Technology, Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China

²Tianjin Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Sensor and Sensing Network Technology, Tianjin 300350, China

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DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.527697 Cite this Article Set citation alerts

Yi-Ming Wang, Fei Fan, Hui-Jun Zhao, Jing Liu, Yun-Yun Ji, Jie-Rong Cheng, Sheng-Jiang Chang, "Active broadband unidirectional focusing of terahertz surface plasmons based on a liquid-crystal-integrated on-chip metadevice," Photonics Res. 12, 2148 (2024) Copy Citation Text

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Yi-Ming Wang, Fei Fan, Hui-Jun Zhao, Jing Liu, Yun-Yun Ji, Jie-Rong Cheng, Sheng-Jiang Chang, "Active broadband unidirectional focusing of terahertz surface plasmons based on a liquid-crystal-integrated on-chip metadevice," Photonics Res. 12, 2148 (2024)

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