Metasurface empowered lithium niobate optical phased array with an enlarged field of view

Zhizhang Wang; Wange Song; Yuxin Chen; Bin Fang; Jitao Ji; Haoran Xin; Shining Zhu; Tao Li

doi:10.1364/PRJ.463118

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