• Advanced Photonics
  • Vol. 3, Issue 3, 036003 (2021)
Xiaodong Cai1、†, Rong Tang1, Haoyang Zhou2, Qiushi Li1, Shaojie Ma2, Dongyi Wang2, Tong Liu2, Xiaohui Ling2、3, Wei Tan4、5, Qiong He2、6、7, Shiyi Xiao1、*, and Lei Zhou2、7、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Shanghai University, Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Joint International Research Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Advanced Communication, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai, China
  • 2Fudan University, State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education) and Physics Department, Shanghai, China
  • 3Hengyang Normal University, College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Hengyang, China
  • 4CAEP, Microsystem and Terahertz Research Center, Chengdu, China
  • 5CAEP, Institute of Electronic Engineering, Mianyang, China
  • 6Fudan University, Academy for Engineering and Technology, Shanghai, China
  • 7Collaborative Innovation Centre of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing, China
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    DOI: 10.1117/1.AP.3.3.036003 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Xiaodong Cai, Rong Tang, Haoyang Zhou, Qiushi Li, Shaojie Ma, Dongyi Wang, Tong Liu, Xiaohui Ling, Wei Tan, Qiong He, Shiyi Xiao, Lei Zhou. Dynamically controlling terahertz wavefronts with cascaded metasurfaces[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2021, 3(3): 036003 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Dynamically controlling terahertz (THz) wavefronts in a designable fashion is highly desired in practice. However, available methods working at microwave frequencies do not work well in the THz regime due to lacking suitable tunable elements with submicrometer sizes. Here, instead of locally controlling individual meta-atoms in a THz metasurface, we show that rotating different layers (each exhibiting a particular phase profile) in a cascaded metadevice at different speeds can dynamically change the effective Jones-matrix property of the whole device, thus enabling extraordinary manipulations on the wavefront and polarization characteristics of a THz beam impinging on the device. After illustrating our strategy based on model calculations, we experimentally demonstrate two proof-of-concept metadevices, each consisting of two carefully designed all-silicon transmissive metasurfaces exhibiting different phase profiles. Rotating two metasurfaces inside the fabricated devices at different speeds, we experimentally demonstrate that the first metadevice can efficiently redirect a normally incident THz beam to scan over a wide solid-angle range, while the second one can dynamically manipulate both the wavefront and polarization of a THz beam. Our results pave the way to achieving dynamic control of THz beams, which is useful in many applications, such as THz radar, and bio- and chemical sensing and imaging.
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    Xiaodong Cai, Rong Tang, Haoyang Zhou, Qiushi Li, Shaojie Ma, Dongyi Wang, Tong Liu, Xiaohui Ling, Wei Tan, Qiong He, Shiyi Xiao, Lei Zhou. Dynamically controlling terahertz wavefronts with cascaded metasurfaces[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2021, 3(3): 036003
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