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Photonics Research
Vol. 11, Issue 11, 1975 (2023)

Large-area ultracompact pixelated aluminum-wire-grid-based metamaterials for Vis-NIR full-Stokes polarization imaging

Yuanyi Fan^1,2, Jinkui Chu^1,2,3,*, Ran Zhang^1,2,4,*, Chuanlong Guan^1,2, and Jianying Liu^1,2

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¹State Key Laboratory of High-performance Precision Manufacturing, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China

²Key Laboratory for Micro/Nano Technology and System of Liaoning Province, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China

³e-mail: chujk@dlut.edu.cn

⁴e-mail: zhangr@dlut.edu.cn

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Yuanyi Fan, Jinkui Chu, Ran Zhang, Chuanlong Guan, Jianying Liu, "Large-area ultracompact pixelated aluminum-wire-grid-based metamaterials for Vis-NIR full-Stokes polarization imaging," Photonics Res. 11, 1975 (2023) Copy Citation Text

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