Dynamically controlling terahertz wavefronts with cascaded metasurfaces

Xiaodong Cai; Rong Tang; Haoyang Zhou; Qiushi Li; Shaojie Ma; Dongyi Wang; Tong Liu; Xiaohui Ling; Wei Tan; Qiong He; Shiyi Xiao; Lei Zhou

doi:10.1117/1.AP.3.3.036003

Advanced Photonics, Volume. 3, Issue 3, 036003(2021)

Dynamically controlling terahertz wavefronts with cascaded metasurfaces

Xiaodong Cai^1、†, Rong Tang¹, Haoyang Zhou², Qiushi Li¹, Shaojie Ma², Dongyi Wang², Tong Liu², Xiaohui Ling^2,3, Wei Tan^4,5, Qiong He^2,6,7, Shiyi Xiao^1、*, and Lei Zhou^2,7、*

Author Affiliations

¹Shanghai University, Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Joint International Research Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Advanced Communication, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai, China

²Fudan University, State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education) and Physics Department, Shanghai, China

³Hengyang Normal University, College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Hengyang, China

⁴CAEP, Microsystem and Terahertz Research Center, Chengdu, China

⁵CAEP, Institute of Electronic Engineering, Mianyang, China

⁶Fudan University, Academy for Engineering and Technology, Shanghai, China

⁷Collaborative Innovation Centre of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing, China

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Paper Information

Category: Research Articles

Received: Feb. 11, 2021

Accepted: May. 19, 2021

Published Online: Jul. 1, 2021

The Author Email: Xiao Shiyi (phxiao@shu.edu.cn), Zhou Lei (phzhou@fudan.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1117/1.AP.3.3.036003

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