基于超宽带反射超表面产生太赫兹轨道角动量

Terahertz orbital angular momentum generation based on ultra-wideband reflective metasurface

  • 摘要: 由于轨道角动量(orbital angular momentum,OAM)有望成为新的通信复用自由度,在拓展信道容量、提高频谱资源利用率方面有巨大潜力而受到越来越多研究人员的关注。目前的太赫兹涡旋波产生器件存在只能工作在单频点、带宽窄、转换效率低等问题,如何在太赫兹频段高效产生OAM成为关键问题之一。该文设计了一种超宽带反射超表面单元,结合几何相位原理和相位叠加原理设计了单层反射超表面。仿真结果表明:设计的超表面实现了在0.82 THz~2.09 THz(相对带宽87.3%)的宽频范围内,将圆极化太赫兹波转换为携带轨道角动量的太赫兹涡旋波,同极化反射谱的幅度大于0.97,转换效率高于94.7%,反射相位覆盖0°~360°。利用傅里叶变换分解反射场中各个OAM模式,定量分析了OAM模式纯度,在不同频率下涡旋波中均为主模式l=−2能量占比最高,进一步对设计的超表面进行优化,主模式能量占比明显提升。该文设计的超表面具有转换效率高、工作带宽大、主模式强度高等优势,为宽带太赫兹涡旋波的高效产生提供了一种参考。

     

    Abstract: Orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been increasingly investigated by researchers because it is expected to be a new physical quantity for communication multiplexing and has great potential for expanding channel capacity and improving spectrum resource utilization. Current terahertz vortex wave generation devices are limited by operating at only a single frequency, having a narrow bandwidth and having low conversion efficiency, so how to efficiently generate OAM in the terahertz band has become one of the key issues. An ultra-wideband reflective meta-atom was proposed, and a single-layer reflective metasurface was designed by combining the Pancharatnam-Berry phase concept and the phase superposition principle. The simulation results show that it achieves the conversion of circularly polarized terahertz waves into terahertz vortex waves carrying orbital angular momentum in a wide frequency range from 0.82 THz to 2.09 THz (with the relative bandwidth of 87.3%). The amplitude of the co-polarized reflection spectrum is higher than 0.97, the conversion efficiency is more than 94.7%, and the reflection phase covers 0°~360°. The Fourier transform was used to decompose each OAM mode in the reflected field, and the OAM mode purity was quantitatively analyzed, with the highest energy weight share of the dominant OAM mode l=−2 in all vortex waves at different frequencies, and the designed metasurface was further optimized to increase the energy share of the dominant mode. The designed metasurface has the advantages of high conversion efficiency, large operating bandwidth, and high main mode energy, which provides a reference for the efficient generation of wideband terahertz vortex waves.

     

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