Metasurface is a two-dimensional artificial electromagnetic material composed of sub-wavelength unit structures in a specific arrangement, which is used to control the propagation of electromagnetic waves
Opto-Electronic Advances, Volume. 7, Issue 8, 240095-1(2024)
Focus control of wide-angle metalens based on digitally encoded metasurface
Based on the principle of super-symmetric lens with quadratic phase gradient transformation, combined with the principle of digital coding of metasurface, we propose a wide-angle coded metalens for focusing control in two-dimensional space. This metalens achieves focus shift in the x-direction by changing the oblique incidence angle of the incident wave, and focus control in the y-direction by combining with the convolution principle of the digitally coded metasurface to achieve flexible control of light focusing in the two-dimensional plane. The metasurface unit is mainly composed of three-layer of metal structure and two layers of medium, and the transmission phase is obtained by changing the middle layer of metal structure, which in turn obtains the required phase distribution of the metalens. The design of the metalens realizes the function of the lens with a large viewing angle at the x-polarized incidence, and realizes two-dimensional focus control. Experimentally, we prepared the designed coding metalens and tested the focus control function of the wide-angle coding metalens. The experimental results are in good agreement with the design results.
Introduction
Metasurface is a two-dimensional artificial electromagnetic material composed of sub-wavelength unit structures in a specific arrangement, which is used to control the propagation of electromagnetic waves
In recent years, the research on metalens
Therefore, we used the principle of supersymmetric lenses and combined with the principle of metasurface digital coding to design a wide-angle metalens
Principles and design
Design principles of metalenses
The traditional lens design is based on the different optical path differences caused by the different thicknesses of light passing through different positions of the lens, which causes the transmitted light to focus. However, the emergence of metasurfaces provides new design ideas for lens. The sub-wavelength structure of the metasurface causes the phase mutation after the light is incident, which leads to a new light propagation law called the generalized Snell's law
where λ is the operating wavelength, r is the radial distance from the centre of the lens, and f is the focal length corresponding to the metalens. Divide the metalens into each small unit, and use the above
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where k0 is the number of waves in free space, and both f and r represent the same meaning as
In contrast to
The wide-angle metalens design
In order to achieve the wide-angle metalens performance, we designed a unit structure consisting of three layers of metal, the upper and lower layers of the unit structure consist of two parallel metal grating strips, and the upper and lower layers of the grating strips are perpendicularly distributed, and the middle layer consists of the notched ring and the metal rod with diagonal symmetry axes. Each metal layer is separated by a dielectric layer. The schematic diagram is shown in
Figure 1.
Figure 2.(
To achieve a good metalens function, in addition to having good transmission efficiency, the unit also needs to meet the corresponding phase changes. By changing the angles α and β of the middle layer ring of the unit structure, we can obtain any phase change between 0 and 2π, as shown in
Based on the design principle of the wide-angle metalens, we discretise the phase at each spatial position of the metalens, and the phase values at each point can be introduced by
Figure 3.
In order to compare the focusing effects of traditional metalens and wide-angle metalens, two types of metalens were designed using the above unit structure. The phase distribution function of the traditional metalens is shown in
Figure 4.
Design of wide angle coding metalenses
The wide-angle metalens in the above section only realize the regulation of the focus in the x direction. In order to achieve the regulation of the focus in two-dimensional space, based on the design basis of the wide-angle metalens, we further designed the lens in the y direction and incorporated the principle of digitally coded metasurfaces for electromagnetic wave control. Combined with the digital coding metasurface function, the units satisfying the coding function are designed, and the units are combined in various ways to realize the deflection of the focus. This design is based on a coding principle of scattering mode offset proposed by Fourier transform, which is called the convolution theorem
Transforming g(ω) in
where exp(jω0t) is the time-shift term in the time domain.
where xλ =x/λ, θ is the incident angle of the wave with respect to the normal direction, and exp(jxλsinθ0) describes the gradient phase with respect to a given direction. As can be seen in
Therefore, by using the wide-angle metalens designed previously combined with the design principle of coded metasurface convolution, the wide-angle metalens can be flexibly controlled in the y direction. The unit structure is consistent with the above structure. Based on the unit group satisfying the quadratic phase distribution in the x direction, further parameter optimization is carried out to obtain the unit group satisfying the phase difference between adjacent units of 45° in the y direction, that is, the 3-bit coding is satisfied in the y direction. Through simulation, the unit structure parameters that meet the 3-bit encoding phase distribution characteristics are obtained. The scattering amplitude and phase distribution of a group of coding units are shown in
Figure 5.Transmission amplitude plot (
In order to prove the reliability of the design of the wide-angle metalens combined with the coded metasurface principle, we conducted simulations of metalens with different coding sequence arrangements in the y-direction of the lens. First, give a coding sequence S0 (7655443332221111000000001111222333445567) in the y direction, so that the metasurface also has a central aggregation effect in the y direction. Secondly, we designed four groups of basic coding sequences as “0246...” with different period. It is known that the period of the unit structure is of p, then the periods of the four sets of coding sequences are respectively designed as Ts1=12p, Ts2=16p, Ts3=32p, Ts4=40p. The coding pattern of each coding sequence and the coding pattern after the convolution operation are as shown in
Figure 6.Coding patterns of each coding sequence (
where λ is the working wavelength of the metasurface, and T is the period size of the coding sequence. Substituting the periods of the above four sets of coding sequences into the
Figure 7.
Figure 8.
where θ1 and θ2 are the deflection angles of the two basic coding periodic sequences for the convolution operation. Through
Theoretically, the above-mentioned coding metasurface retains the function of a wide-angle metalens while increasing the control function of the focus in the y direction. While the metasurface satisfies the coding phase distribution in the y direction, the phase in the x direction still maintains the phase distribution characteristics. When the incident wave is located on the x-z plane and is incident obliquely on the metalens, the transmitted light is still focused on the same focal plane and is only laterally shifted in the x direction of the focal plane. In order to prove that the wide-angle metalens performance and the y-direction coding control function exist at the same time, we conducted the simulation again, and the simulation results are shown in
Figure 9.
Based on the coding metasurface design principle, we can also extend the coding space to the complex domain and use the complex coding addition theorem to control electromagnetic waves
where k is the propagation constant, ejφ contains the phase details of the electromagnetic wave. By controlling the phase of the electromagnetic wave, the scattered beam can be flexibly controlled. Therefore, the addition theorem is a special encoding form based on analytic geometry and complex variable functions. The phase part ejφ is used for complex encoding, so that there is a certain connection between different bit number codings. The operation rules of the complex encoding addition theorem are shown in
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Next, we continue to study wide-angle coded metalens using the coded addition theorem. From the above simulation results, it can be seen that the convolution theorem can only independently control the focus of the metalens, and by using the complex addition theorem, we can achieve simultaneous control of the two functions. After the addition operation of the 2-bit coding sequence S7 (0123) with a period of 16p and the 2-bit coding sequence S8 (0123) with a period of 32p, a 3-bit mixed coding sequence S9 is obtained. We can convolve the hybrid code S9 with the coding sequence S0 to obtain a new sequence of metasurface arrays as shown in
Figure 10.
Experimental and measurement results
In order to verify the focusing effect of the metalens, we used standard printed circuit board (PCB) technology to produce a sample of the metalens for experimental verification of the focusing function
Figure 11.
This experiment uses microwave near-field testing system to test the functionality of metasurface samples. The horn antenna is used to connect the vector network analyzer as the transmitting end, and the waveguide detector is used as the signal receiving end to transmit the data back to the vector network analyzer. The vector network analyzer used in the laboratory is Agilent E5071C, which can transmit and receive electromagnetic waves in the frequency range of 100 kHz–8.5 GHz. The horn antenna can transmit signals in the range of 5.38 GHz–8.17 GHz, and the waveguide detector can receive signals in the same frequency band. The test frame is composed of an aluminum alloy metal frame and a stepper motor to achieve controllable movement in three-dimensional space. The stepper motor is connected to the computer through the HF020 controller to realize automatic control of program coding. By modifying the control program in the matlab software, the controller sends out the expected pulse signal, and the stepper motor further receives the signal and turns the signal into the displacement of the platform test frame, thereby controlling the waveguide probe to move in three-dimensional space for data reception.
Figure 12.
where D is the maximum transverse size of the antenna port (the maximum transverse size of the antenna horn aperture during the experimental test is 13 cm). The frequency of the incident electromagnetic wave is of 8 GHz, the wavelength is of 37.5 mm, and the shortest distance obtained is of 0.9 m. Therefore, the horn antenna should be placed at 0.9 m away from the metasurface, which can meet the requirements of spherical wave to plane wave. During the experiment, the horn antenna was placed at 1.5 m away from the metasurface. The stepper motor drives the waveguide probe to move for spatial scanning, and the stepper of the motor is of about 10 mm. The transverse sampling number is of 40, and the longitudinal number is of 20. Each step of the motor will stay for a period of time, waiting for the computer to further receive and process the received data, and will return to the starting point after the test. The waveguide probe receives the transmitted wave signal on the test surface. The computer program automatically acquires and processes the received test data for subsequent data integration processing.
Using the experimental test platform, we tested the focusing function of each metasurface sample, and tested the light intensity distribution of the metasurface on the x-y plane and y-z plane, respectively. The focusing effect is shown in
Figure 13.
Figure 14.
Conclusion
We propose a supersymmetric lens based on the principle of quadratic phase gradient transformation. The metalens with wide angle focusing can realize focus control in two-dimensional space. We further introduce the Fourier convolution operation encoding metasurface to regulate the focal point of the lens in the plane space. Based on the coding addition operation of coding metalens, we can obtain the free control of multi-focus. In the microwave band, we have experimentally confirmed the focus regulation characteristics of the metalens. The theoretical results are basically consistent with the experimental results.
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Yi Chen, Simeng Zhang, Ying Tian, Chenxia Li, Wenlong Huang, Yixin Liu, Yongxing Jin, Bo Fang, Zhi Hong, Xufeng Jing. Focus control of wide-angle metalens based on digitally encoded metasurface[J]. Opto-Electronic Advances, 2024, 7(8): 240095-1
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Received: Apr. 25, 2024
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Published Online: Nov. 12, 2024
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