Rapid Polarization Rotation Smoothing Scheme Based on Interference of Circularly Polarized Vortex Beamlets

Huang Yuan; Zhang Yinrui; Zhong Zheqiang; Zhang Bin; Sun Nianchun

doi:10.3788/CJL202047.0905003

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