Flexible terahertz beam manipulation and convolution operations in light-controllable digital coding metasurfaces

Summary: The development of coding metasurface opens an important development direction for beam modulator components. However, the lack of dynamic tunability is a major obstacle to the development and practicality of terahertz coding metasurface. In this work, we design and implement a wireless opt...

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Main Authors: Min Jia, Chao Zhao, Hui Wang, Weiran Sun, Yuncheng Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-02-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004224029158
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Summary:Summary: The development of coding metasurface opens an important development direction for beam modulator components. However, the lack of dynamic tunability is a major obstacle to the development and practicality of terahertz coding metasurface. In this work, we design and implement a wireless optically controlled tunable coding metasurface by integrating photosensitive silicon into the metasurface, which realizes the ultra-fast dynamic switching effect of terahertz beam and dynamic convolution operation of 2-bit coding metasurface. We also achieve dynamic modulation of vortex electromagnetic waves based on wireless light-controllable coding metasurfaces. And the genetic algorithm is used to reverse design the array arrangement of the coding metasurface to achieve terahertz broadband radar scattering cross-section reduction. The proposed optically controlled dynamic metasurface developed in this study has the potential to create non-contact metasurfaces, thereby making it a valuable tool for future practical applications.
ISSN:2589-0042