A planar chiral meta-surface for optical vortex generation and focusing

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Ma, Xiaoliang ^a   Pu, Mingbo ^a   Li, Xiong ^a   Huang, Cheng ^a   Wang, Yanqin ^a   Pan, Wenbo ^a   Zhao, Bo ^a   Cui, Jianhua ^a   Wang, Changtao ^a   Zhao, Zeyu ^a   Luo, Xiangang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

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EID: 84930201599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10365     Document Type: Article

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