太赫兹辐射
波前
极化(电化学)
光学
物理
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材料科学
梁(结构)
光束转向
光电子学
量子力学
物理化学
化学
作者
Xiaodong Cai,Rong Tang,Haoyang Zhou,Qiushi Li,Shaojie Ma,Dongyi Wang,Tong Liu,Xiaohui Ling,Wei Tan,Qiong He,Shiyi Xiao,Lei Zhou
出处
期刊:Advanced photonics
[SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering]
日期:2021-06-26
卷期号:3 (03)
被引量:106
标识
DOI:10.1117/1.ap.3.3.036003
摘要
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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