• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 10, Issue 11, 2658 (2022)
Hui-Jun Zhao1, Fei Fan1、2、*, Yun-Yun Ji1, Song-Lin Jiang1, Zhi-Yu Tan1, and Sheng-Jiang Chang1、2
Author Affiliations
  • 1Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Micro-scale Optical Information Science and Technology, Tianjin 300350, China
  • 2Tianjin Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Sensor and Sensing Network Technology, Tianjin 300350, China
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.471282 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Hui-Jun Zhao, Fei Fan, Yun-Yun Ji, Song-Lin Jiang, Zhi-Yu Tan, Sheng-Jiang Chang. Active terahertz beam manipulation with photonic spin conversion based on a liquid crystal Pancharatnam–Berry metadevice[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(11): 2658 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Active terahertz (THz) beam manipulation is urgently needed for applications in wireless communication, radar detection, and remote sensing. In this work, we demonstrate a liquid crystal (LC) integrated Pancharatnam–Berry (PB) metadevice for active THz beam manipulation. Through theoretical analysis and simulation design, the geometric phase of the PB metasurface is engineered to match the tunable anisotropic phase shift of LCs under an external magnetic field, and dynamic beam deflection accompanied by spin conversion is obtained. The experimental results show that the device realizes a dynamic modulation depth of >94% and maximum efficiency of over 50% for the different spin states. Moreover, due to the broadband operating characteristics of devices at 0.7–1.3 THz, the deflection angles are frequency dependent with a scanning range of over ±20° to ±32.5°. Moreover, the two conjugate spin states are always spatially separated in different deflection directions with an isolation degree of over 10 dB. Therefore, this metadevice provides a scheme of active THz beam deflection and spin state conversion, and it also achieves both controllable wavelength division multiplexing and spin division multiplexing, which have important potential in large-capacity THz wireless communication.
    [ELoutERout]=TPB[ELinERin]=[0e2iφe2iφ0][ELinERin]=[ERine2iφELine2iφ].

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    TLC=(tRRLCtRLLCtLRLCtLLLC)=(cos(δ2)iei2αsin(δ2)iei2αsin(δ2)cos(δ2)).

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    (ELoutERout)=TPBTLC(α=0)(ELinERin)=(iELinei2φiERinei2φ).

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    (ELoutERout)=TPBTLC(α=π/2)(ELinERin)=(ERinei2φELinei2φ).

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    T(ω,θ)=(tRRtRLtLRtLL)=12((t++45°+t45°)+i(t+45°t+45°)(t++45°t45°)i(t+45°+t+45°)(t++45°t45°)+i(t+45°+t+45°)(t++45°+t45°)i(t+45°t+45°)).

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    Hui-Jun Zhao, Fei Fan, Yun-Yun Ji, Song-Lin Jiang, Zhi-Yu Tan, Sheng-Jiang Chang. Active terahertz beam manipulation with photonic spin conversion based on a liquid crystal Pancharatnam–Berry metadevice[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(11): 2658
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