Spatially engineered nonlinearity in resonant metasurfaces

Anna Fedotova; Mohammadreza Younesi; Maximilian Weissflog; Dennis Arslan; Thomas Pertsch; Isabelle Staude; Frank Setzpfandt

doi:10.1364/PRJ.475616

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