PhotoniX, Volume. 5, Issue 1, 10(2024)

Ultra-wideband terahertz fingerprint enhancement sensing and inversion model supported by single-pixel reconfigurable graphene metasurface

Bingwei Liu1, Yan Peng1、*, YuFan Hao1, Yiming Zhu1、**, Shengjiang Chang2、***, and Songlin Zhuang1
Author Affiliations
  • 1Terahertz Technology Innovation Research Institute, Terahertz Spectrum and Imaging Technology Cooperative Innovation Center, Shanghai Key Lab of Modern Optical System, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
  • 2Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
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    The molecular fingerprint sensing technology based on metasurface has unique attraction in the biomedical field. However, in the terahertz (THz) band, existing metasurface designs based on multi-pixel or angle multiplexing usually require more analyte amount or possess a narrower tuning bandwidth. Here, we propose a novel single-pixel graphene metasurface. Based on the synchronous voltage tuning, this metasurface enables ultra-wideband ( $$\sim$$ 1.5 THz) fingerprint enhancement sensing of trace analytes, including chiral optical isomers, with a limit of detection (LoD) ≤ 0.64 μg/mm2. The enhancement of the fingerprint signal ( $$\sim$$ 17.4 dB) originates from the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) effect excited by the metasurface, and the ideal overlap between the light field constrained by single-layer graphene (SLG) and ultra-thin analyte. Meanwhile, due to the unique nonlinear enhancement mechanism in graphene tuning, the absorption envelope distortion is inevitable. To solve this problem, a universal fingerprint spectrum inversion model is developed for the first time, and the restoration of standard fingerprints reaches Rmax2 ≥ 0.99. In addition, the asynchronous voltage tuning of the metasurface provides an opportunity for realizing the dynamic reconfiguration of EIT resonance and the slow light modulation in the broadband range. This work builds a bridge for ultra-wideband THz fingerprint sensing of trace analytes, and has potential applications in active spatial light modulators, slow light devices and dynamic imaging equipments.

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    Bingwei Liu, Yan Peng, YuFan Hao, Yiming Zhu, Shengjiang Chang, Songlin Zhuang. Ultra-wideband terahertz fingerprint enhancement sensing and inversion model supported by single-pixel reconfigurable graphene metasurface[J]. PhotoniX, 2024, 5(1): 10

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    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Feb. 22, 2024

    Accepted: Apr. 3, 2024

    Published Online: Jan. 23, 2025

    The Author Email: Peng Yan (py@usst.edu.cn), Zhu Yiming (ymzhu@usst.edu.cn), Chang Shengjiang (sjchang@nankai.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1186/s43074-024-00129-4

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