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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 23, Issue 2, 023605 (2025)

Terahertz metalenses for needle beam generation through coherent polarization multiplexing

Shengnan Guan¹, Jierong Cheng^1,2,*, Haifeng Xu¹, Fan Li¹, and Shengjiang Chang^1,3

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¹Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China

²Tianjin Key Laboratory of Micro-scale Optical Information Science and Technology, Tianjin 300350, China

³Tianjin Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Sensor and Sensing Network Technology, Tianjin 300350, China

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