Transmissive reconfigurable metasurface enabling independent control of active and passive modules through weak coupling

Kun Xue; Heng Wei; Cilei Zhang; Yonghao Zhang; Haoliang Sun; Shaohua Dong

doi:10.1364/PRJ.517652

Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 7, 1449(2024)

Transmissive reconfigurable metasurface enabling independent control of active and passive modules through weak coupling

Kun Xue^1、†, Heng Wei^2,4、†,*, Cilei Zhang¹, Yonghao Zhang¹, Haoliang Sun³, and Shaohua Dong^1,5、*

Author Affiliations

¹Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen 518055, China

²Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117583, Singapore

³State Key Laboratory of Radio Frequency Heterogeneous Integration, College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China

⁴e-mail: heng.wei@u.nus.edu

⁵e-mail: lightdong@yeah.net

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Paper Information

Category: Optical and Photonic Materials

Received: Jan. 3, 2024

Accepted: May. 9, 2024

Published Online: Jun. 26, 2024

The Author Email: Heng Wei (heng.wei@u.nus.edu), Shaohua Dong (lightdong@yeah.net)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.517652

CSTR:32188.14.PRJ.517652

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