Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 41, Issue 1, 0123003(2021)

High-Efficiency Manipulations on Electromagnetic Waves with Metasurfaces

Shulin Sun1, Qiong He2, Jiaming Hao3, Shiyi Xiao4, and Lei Zhou2、*
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  • 1Department of Optical Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
  • 2Physics Department, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
  • 3Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China
  • 4Department of Communication & Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China;
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    Freely controlling electromagnetic (EM) waves in desired manners are not only highly important for scientific researches, but also an urgent need in the fields of communications, energy, national defense, etc. To overcome the limitations of natural materials on controlling EM waves, people proposed to construct artificial metamaterials based on subwavelength-sized microstructures with tailored EM properties. Metamaterials have exhibited many fascinating EM effects, such as negative refraction, optical cloaking, and so on. However, after years of development, metamaterials still suffer from many challenges including complexities in structures, high losses, difficulties in optical integrations, etc. Recently, together with other scientists, we proposed the concept of metasurfaces. Utilizing the abrupt phase changes of EM wave scatterings at the meta-atoms and fully exploring the microscopic order of the meta-atoms arrangement, metasurfaces have exhibited much stronger control capabilities on EM wave amplitude, phase, polarization and wavefront distribute, overcoming the bottleneck issues faced by bulk metamaterials. In this article, we will mainly review our key research works on using metasurfaces to control EM waves, including polarization control, wavefront control and dynamic control.

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    Shulin Sun, Qiong He, Jiaming Hao, Shiyi Xiao, Lei Zhou. High-Efficiency Manipulations on Electromagnetic Waves with Metasurfaces[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2021, 41(1): 0123003

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    Paper Information

    Category: Optical Devices

    Received: Dec. 21, 2020

    Accepted: Dec. 25, 2020

    Published Online: Feb. 23, 2021

    The Author Email: Zhou Lei (phzhou@fudan.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202141.0123003

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