Versatile on-chip light coupling and (de)multiplexing from arbitrary polarizations to controlled waveguide modes using an integrated dielectric metasurface

Yuan Meng; Zhoutian Liu; Zhenwei Xie; Ride Wang; Tiancheng Qi; Futai Hu; Hyunseok Kim; Qirong Xiao; Xing Fu; Qiang Wu; Sang-Hoon Bae; Mali Gong; Xiaocong Yuan

doi:10.1364/PRJ.384449

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