Arbitrarily rotating polarization direction and manipulating phases in linear and nonlinear ways using programmable metasurface

Wei Liu; Si Ran Wang; Jun Yan Dai; Lei Zhang; Qiao Chen; Qiang Cheng; Tie Jun Cui

doi:10.1038/s41377-024-01513-2

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Arbitrarily rotating polarization direction and manipulating phases in linear and nonlinear ways using programmable metasurface

Original Articles

- Arbitrarily rotating polarization direction and manipulating phases in linear and nonlinear ways using programmable metasurface
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 13, Issue 9, Pages: 1789-1800(2024)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
  2.Institute of Electromagnetic Space, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
  3.Frontiers Science Center for Mobile Information Communication and Security, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
  4.Electrical Engineering Department, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg 41258, Sweden
- Author bio：
  
  Jun Yan Dai (junyand@seu.edu.cn)
  Qiao Chen (qiaoc@chalmers.se)
  Qiang Cheng (qiangcheng@seu.edu.cn)
  Tie Jun Cui (tjcui@seu.edu.cn)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-024-01513-2
  CLC：
- Published：30 September 2024，
  
  Published Online：18 July 2024，
  
  Received：03 January 2024，
  
  Revised：07 June 2024，
  
  Accepted：26 June 2024
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Liu, W. et al. Arbitrarily rotating polarization direction and manipulating phases in linear and nonlinear ways using programmable metasurface. Light: Science & Applications, 13, 1789-1800 (2024).
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Liu, W. et al. Arbitrarily rotating polarization direction and manipulating phases in linear and nonlinear ways using programmable metasurface. Light: Science & Applications, 13, 1789-1800 (2024). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-024-01513-2.

摘要

Abstract

Independent controls of various properties of electromagnetic (EM) waves are crucially required in a wide range of applications. Programmable metasurface is a promising candidate to provide an advanced platform for manipulating EM waves. Here

we propose an approach that can arbitrarily control the polarization direction and phases of reflected waves in linear and nonlinear ways using a stacked programmable metasurface. Further

we extend the space-time-coding theory to incorporate the dimension of polarization

which provides an extra degree of freedom for manipulating EM waves. As proof-of-principle application examples

we consider polarization rotation

phase manipulation

and beam steering at linear and nonlinear frequencies. For validation

we design

fabricate

and measure a metasurface sample. The experimental results show good agreement with theoretical predictions and simulations. The proposed approach has a wide range of applications in various areas

such as imaging

data storage

and wireless communication.

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