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Title: Focusing and Accelerating Light with the Same Flat Lens
We demonstrate how a simple 1D flat lens can be utilized to not only focus light but to generate non-paraxial accelerating beams. We further report how illumination angle and wavelength degrees of freedom allow dynamic transition between these two functionalities.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1825787
PAR ID:
10310740
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2021)
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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