Tailoring of Circularly Polarized Beams Employing Bound States in the Continuum in a Designed Photonic Crystal Metasurface Nanostructure
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results and Discussion
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A. Calculation of Stokes Parameters Using the Finite Element Method of COMSOL
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Xu, C.; Chao, M.; Liu, Z.; Liu, Q.; Zhang, W.; Zhuang, L.; Cheng, B.; Jiang, B.; Liu, J.; Song, G. Tailoring of Circularly Polarized Beams Employing Bound States in the Continuum in a Designed Photonic Crystal Metasurface Nanostructure. Nanomaterials 2024, 14, 1405. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano14171405
Xu C, Chao M, Liu Z, Liu Q, Zhang W, Zhuang L, Cheng B, Jiang B, Liu J, Song G. Tailoring of Circularly Polarized Beams Employing Bound States in the Continuum in a Designed Photonic Crystal Metasurface Nanostructure. Nanomaterials. 2024; 14(17):1405. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano14171405
Chicago/Turabian StyleXu, Chunhao, Minghao Chao, Zhizhong Liu, Qingsong Liu, Wenjing Zhang, Lingyun Zhuang, Bo Cheng, Botao Jiang, Jietao Liu, and Guofeng Song. 2024. "Tailoring of Circularly Polarized Beams Employing Bound States in the Continuum in a Designed Photonic Crystal Metasurface Nanostructure" Nanomaterials 14, no. 17: 1405. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano14171405