Direct Transmission of Digital Message via Programmable Coding Metasurface

Cui, Tie Jun; Liu, Shuo; Bai, Guo Dong; Ma, Qian

doi:10.34133/2019/2584509

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“…The concept of digital coding and programmable metasurfaces was originally proposed by Cui et al in 2014, and has been rapidly developed and implemented in many applications . Such metasurfaces are composed of a limited numbers of meta‐atoms and can control EM waves in a discretized manner, which offers the inherent advantage of greatly simplifying the design and optimization procedures.…”

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“…The digital representation of coding metasurfaces is remarkably suitable for integrating active devices (e.g., diodes), which can be independently controlled by a field‐ programmable gate array (FPGA), thereby leading to programmable metasurfaces. These concepts have been widely explored in several applications including holograms, imaging, vortex beams, reflect and transmit arrays, diffuse scattering, information processing, and new architectures of wireless communication systems . More recently, a general theory of space‐time‐coding digital metasurfaces has been proposed to enable simultaneous manipulations of EM waves in both the space and frequency domains, such as harmonic beam steering.…”

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Breaking Reciprocity with Space‐Time‐Coding Digital Metasurfaces

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which can manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves in unconventional ways, and have enabled many exotic physical phenomena and effects, also inspiring novel devices and engineering applications. [1] Their 2D versions, commonly referred to as metasurfaces, are experiencing a strong surge of interest owing to a number of attractive features, including ultrathin thickness, low loss, easy fabrication, and potential conformability. In the wake of the pioneering work by Yu et al. [2] on generalized Snell's laws enabled by imparting an abrupt phase shift, metasurfaces have demonstrated unprecedented capabilities in wavefront engineering, amplitude modulation, and polarization conversion, just to mention a few. [2][3][4][5][6] However, metasurfaces that only impart space-gradient phase discontinuities are inherently constrained by Lorentz reciprocity. This implies, for instance, that the time-reversed version of a reflected wave propagates along the same direction as the original incident wave at the same frequency.The quest for breaking reciprocity is of longstanding interest in EM engineering, and is currently eliciting renewed attention in view of its pivotal role in lifting some fundamental limitations in communication systems as well as energy harvesting and heat management. [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] For instance, in wireless communication systems, a nonreciprocal antenna could radiate a very directive beam without being bound to receiving its reflected echo. [20] A common way to attain nonreciprocal effects, especially at microwave frequencies, is to break the time-reversal symmetry by means of biased magnetic materials (e.g., ferrites). These, however, are typically bulky, costly, and difficult to integrate and scale up to optical wavelengths, [10] which motivates the strong interest in magnetless approaches. Some of these are based on nonlinear materials, which are not bound by the reciprocity theorem, but are power-dependent and require sufficiently high signal intensity. [11,12] Other magnetless approaches rely on transistor-based devices [13] and moving media, [14,15] but are limited in terms of operating frequency, and are difficult to extend to the optical regime. Timevarying approaches have emerged as attractive alternatives based on time-modulated devices, [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] which have smaller size, lower cost, and better integrability. In 2015, Shaltout et al. [19] Metasurfaces are artificially engineered ultrathin structures that can finely tailor and control electromagnetic wavefronts. There is currently a strong interest in exploring their capability to lift some fundamental limitations dictated by Lorentz reciprocity, which have strong implications in communication, heat management, and energy harvesting. Time-varying approaches have emerged as attractive alternatives to conventional schemes relying on magnetic or nonlinear materials, but experimental evidence is currently limited to devices such as circulators and antennas. Here, the recently...

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“…In the recent decades, 2D metasurfaces arise with the advantages of negligible profiles, lower loss, and high degrees of integration, becoming more of interest in the manipulations of waves . Since the proposal of the generalized Snell's laws of reflection and refraction based on the abrupt phase shift caused by a metasurface, a variety of interesting applications were put forward . Specifically, to extend exotic and attractive properties of the metasurfaces, integrations with tuning substances or elements, including graphene, vanadium dioxide, liquid crystal in optics, and MEMS switches, PIN diodes, varactors in the microwave domain, giving the metasurfaces with dynamic tunabilities.…”

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“…Specifically, to extend exotic and attractive properties of the metasurfaces, integrations with tuning substances or elements, including graphene, vanadium dioxide, liquid crystal in optics, and MEMS switches, PIN diodes, varactors in the microwave domain, giving the metasurfaces with dynamic tunabilities. More importantly, loadings of digital electronics facilitated more advanced functions of the metasurfaces, such as hologram, signal transmission, and controls of harmonics …”

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Intensity‐Dependent Metasurface with Digitally Reconfigurable Distribution of Nonlinearity

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Nonlinear metamaterials are of continuing interest by manipulating electromagnetic (EM) waves depending on incident intensity. Most of the existing nonlinear metamaterials rely on the interactions between superconcentrated EM fields and nonlinear substances within the resonant composites, which cannot be easily adjusted dynamically. Here, an intensity‐dependent metasurface is proposed, whose nonlinearity distribution is digitally reconfigurable. Different from previous works, an active microwave detecting circuit is integrated into each particle of the metasurface as the nonlinear module, endowing reflection phase of the particle with strong dependence on microwave intensities. By controlling the circuit using a digital bit, the particle can be switched to be linear with a fixed phase, which provides a digital way to reconfigure the arrangement of nonlinear and linear particles on the metasurface. Therefore, the phase profile on the surface is determined by the incoming intensity and digital controlling signals, opening up new possibilities in nonlinear EM wave manipulations. The concept is demonstrated by the digitally defined nonlinear scattering measurements at microwave frequencies. As a new metamaterial with the digitally reconfigurable nonlinearity and negligible thickness, this proposal may find potential applications including power protection, EM compatibility, nonlinear beam scanning, and so on.

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“…Within this perspective, we can not only encode the phase responses, but also other EM characteristics like polarizations and orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes . Consequently, the digitally programmable methods bring plentiful functions, such as space‐time coding, and new‐architecture communication system …”

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Controllable and Programmable Nonreciprocity Based on Detachable Digital Coding Metasurface

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Advanced Optical Materials

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electromagnetic (EM) waves. Numerous interesting physical functions are realized by metamaterials [1][2][3][4][5] such as negative refraction, [1] invisibility cloaks, [2,3] and superlens. [4] Metasurfaces are planer versions of bulk metamaterials to control the EM waves on their phases, [6] amplitudes, [7] and polarizations. [8] Evolved from traditional metamaterials described by effective medium parameters, digital coding metamaterials have been proposed [9] to design metasurfaces from digital perspective and realize programmable functionalities using a single metasurface. In the digital coding metasurfaces, two distinct EM responses can be encoded as digits "1" and "0," [10,11] Then the related metasurface design is transformed into digital process. As a result, some groundbreaking researches like convolution operations [12] and information entropy [13] for metasurfaces have been presented, suggesting potential relations between the digital world and the physical world. Within this perspective, we can not only encode the phase responses, but also other EM characteristics like polarizations and orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes. [14,15] Consequently, the digitally programmable methods bring plentiful functions, such as space-time coding, [16,17] and new-architecture communication system. [18][19][20] As an important concept in microwave and optical frequencies, nonreciprocity has raised in myriad physical branchesthermodynamics, mechanics, electromagnetism, optics, and so on. [21] The classic nonreciprocal devices like circulators are indispensable components in radar [22] and communication systems. [23] For traditional electromagnetics, nonreciprocal devices are predominantly based on magnetized materials, [24,25] like ferrites, usually composed of iron oxides and other elements (Al, Ni, Co). [26] However, these kinds of materials are usually large, bulky, uneconomical, and difficult to integrate into the metasurfaces. To overcome these drawbacks, magnetless nonreciprocial metasurfaces (MNMs) have been proposed. [27][28][29][30][31] By interconnecting transistor-like amplifier [27][28][29] and isolator [30,31] into metasurface structure, MNMs can easily achieve smaller size and better integrability. In addition, nonreciprocial metamaterials based on time modulation have also been presented, [32] but their control system complexity is greatly increased.

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Direct Transmission of Digital Message via Programmable Coding Metasurface

Cited by 150 publications

References 23 publications

Breaking Reciprocity with Space‐Time‐Coding Digital Metasurfaces

Breaking Reciprocity with Space‐Time‐Coding Digital Metasurfaces

Intensity‐Dependent Metasurface with Digitally Reconfigurable Distribution of Nonlinearity

Controllable and Programmable Nonreciprocity Based on Detachable Digital Coding Metasurface

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