• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 11, Issue 6, 1047 (2023)
Tonghao Liu1, Yueyu Meng1,4,*, Jiafu Wang1,5,*, Hua Ma1,6,*..., Ruichao Zhu1, Chao Liu1, Weihan Li2,3, Zuntian Chu1, Sai Sui1, Tianshuo Qiu1, Wenxuan Tang2,3 and Shaobo Qu1|Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Artificially-Structured Functional Materials and Devices, Air Force Engineering University, Xi’an 710051, China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
  • 3Frontiers Science Center for Mobile Information Communication and Security, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
  • 4e-mail: mengyy1990@163.com
  • 5e-mail: wangjiafu1981@126.com
  • 6e-mail: mahuar@xjtu.edu.cn
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    Tonghao Liu, Yueyu Meng, Jiafu Wang, Hua Ma, Ruichao Zhu, Chao Liu, Weihan Li, Zuntian Chu, Sai Sui, Tianshuo Qiu, Wenxuan Tang, Shaobo Qu, "Six-channel programmable coding metasurface simultaneously for orthogonal circular and linear polarizations," Photonics Res. 11, 1047 (2023) Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Metasurfaces have intrigued long-standing research interests and developed multitudinous compelling applications owing to their unprecedented capability for manipulating electromagnetic waves, and the emerging programmable coding metasurfaces (PCMs) provide a real-time reconfigurable platform to dynamically implement customized functions. Nevertheless, most existing PCMs can only act on the single polarization state or perform in the limited polarization channel, which immensely restricts their practical application in multitask intelligent metadevices. Herein, an appealing strategy of the PCM is proposed to realize tunable functions in co-polarized reflection channels of orthogonal circularly polarized waves and in co-polarized and cross-polarized reflection channels of orthogonal linearly polarized waves from 9.0 to 10.5 GHz. In the above six channels, the spin-decoupled programmable meta-atom can achieve high-efficiency reflection and 1-bit digital phase modulation by selecting the specific ON/OFF states of two diodes, and the phase coding sequence of the PCM is dynamically regulated by the field-programmable gate array to generate the desired function. A proof-of-concept prototype is constructed to verify the feasibility of our methodology, and numerous simulation and experimental results are in excellent agreement with the theoretical predictions. This inspiring design opens a new avenue for constructing intelligent metasurfaces with higher serviceability and flexibility, and has tremendous application potential in communication, sensing, and other multifunctional smart metadevices.
    (ExrEyr)=RLP·(ExiEyi)=(RxxRxyRyxRyy)·(ExiEyi).

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    (ELrERr)=RCP·(ELiERi)=(RLL00RRR)·(ELiERi),

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    (ELiERi)=(1i1i)·(ExiEyi)/2,

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    (ELrERr)=(1i1i)·(ExrEyr)/2.

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    RLP=(1i1i)1·RCP·(1i1i).

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    (RxxRxyRyxRyy)=(rLL·ei·φLL+rRR·ei·φRRi(rLL·ei·φLLrRR·ei·φRR)i(rLL·ei·φLLrRR·ei·φRR)(rLL·ei·φLL+rRR·ei·φRR))/2.

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    (RxxRxyRyxRyy)=((1+ei·Δφ)ei·φLL(1ei·Δφ)ei·(φLLπ/2)(1ei·Δφ)ei·(φLLπ/2)(1+ei·Δφ)ei·(φLL+π))/2.

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    φ(x,y)=l·arctan(y/x)+k0·x·sinθ,

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    φ(x,y)={0,0φ(x,y)<ππ,πφ(x,y)<2π.

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    Tonghao Liu, Yueyu Meng, Jiafu Wang, Hua Ma, Ruichao Zhu, Chao Liu, Weihan Li, Zuntian Chu, Sai Sui, Tianshuo Qiu, Wenxuan Tang, Shaobo Qu, "Six-channel programmable coding metasurface simultaneously for orthogonal circular and linear polarizations," Photonics Res. 11, 1047 (2023)
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