All dielectric metasurfaces for spin-dependent terahertz wavefront control

Tong Wu; Huifang Zhang; Sivaloganathan Kumaran; Yuehong Xu; Qingwei Wang; Wladislaw Michailow; Xueqian Zhang; Harvey E. Beere; David A. Ritchie; Jiaguang Han

doi:10.1364/PRJ.462153

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