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Optical metasurfaces enable to engineer the electromagnetic space and control light propagation at an unprecedented level, offering a powerful tool to achieve modulation of light over multiple physical dimensions. Here, we demonstrate a…

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Complex vector modes have become topical of late due to their fascinating properties and the many applications they have found across a broad variety of research fields. Even though such modes can be generated in a wide variety of ways,…

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Manipulating vector beams is pivotal in fields such as particle manipulation, image processing, and quantum communication. Flexibly adjusting the intensity distribution of these beams is crucial for effectively realizing these applications.…

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Metasurfaces are engineered thin surfaces comprising two dimensional (2D) arrays of sub-wavelength spaced and sub-wavelength sized resonators. Metasurfaces can locally manipulate the amplitude, phase and polarization of light with high…

Ultracompact chip-integrated single-photon sources of collimated beams with polarizationencoded states are crucial for integrated quantum technologies. However, most of currently available single-photon sources rely on external bulky…

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We demonstrate reconfigurable phase-only computer-generated metasurface holograms with one, two, or three image planes operating in the visible regime on a stretchable polydimethylsiloxane substrate. Stretching the substrate enlarges the…

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As two-dimensional metamaterials, metasurfaces open up new avenues for designing static planar optics. However, the dynamic modulation of metasurfaces in the optical band is required for practical applications. The existing dynamic devices…

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