Arbitrary manipulations of focused higher-order Poincar&#233; beams by a Fresnel zone metasurface with alternate binary geometric and propagation phases

Xiangyu Zeng; Yuqin Zhang; Manna Gu; Zijun Zhan; Ruirui Zhang; Yu Zhang; Rui Sun; Changwei He; Chunxiang Liu; Chuanfu Cheng

doi:10.1364/PRJ.451637

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