Generation of cylindrical vector vortex beams by two cascaded metasurfaces

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 17207-17215

  Yi, Xunong ^a,c   Ling, Xiaohui ^a   Zhang, Zhiyou ^a   Li, Ying ^a   Zhou, Xinxing ^b   Liu, Yachao ^b   Chen, Shizhen ^b   Luo, Hailu ^a,b   Wen, Shuangchun ^a,b  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HUBEI ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLARIZATION; VORTEX FLOW;

BERRY PHASE; LOCAL POLARIZATION; METASURFACE; METASURFACES; SPACE VARIANTS; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES; VECTOR POLARIZATION; VECTOR-VORTEX BEAMS;

VECTOR SPACES;

EID: 84904349998     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.017207     Document Type: Article

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