Making liquid crystals twitch under metamaterial-enhanced terahertz illumination: toward strong optical nonlinearity DOI Creative Commons
Ben Beddoes, Nicholas Klokkou,

Malgosia Kaczmarek

и другие.

Optics Express, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 33(1), С. 1008 - 1008

Опубликована: Дек. 27, 2024

We provide the first direct experimental evidence for reorientation of liquid crystals by polarized radiation from a conventional, low power, oscillator-based terahertz time-domain spectrometer. Using pump - optical probe setup, we observed that occurs locally through resonant amplification field in specially designed planar metamaterial, adjacent to crystal layer, and increases with increasing incident intensity. Our work thus demonstrates it is possible induce strong nonlinearity part spectrum, paving way toward development new all-optical active devices as well electric sensors localized systems.

Язык: Английский

Vortex‐Vector Beam Conversion and Chiral Field Manipulation based on Terahertz Liquid Crystal Cascaded Metadevice DOI
Huijun Zhao, Fei Fan, Yiming Wang

и другие.

Laser & Photonics Review, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Июнь 4, 2024

Abstract Vortex‐vector beam generators can effectively improve the channel capacity and communication accuracy, but they face problems of narrow operating frequency band, low efficiency, fixed function. Here, a terahertz liquid crystal cascaded metadevice is demonstrated, including layer, an asymmetric metasurface helical phase layer. The combination crystal's anisotropy structural from realizes dynamic chirality construction. Then, tunable chiral fields are coupled with geometric last layer to realize active control between symmetric spin‐orbit angular momentum coupling, leading two types generation conversion: 1) spin‐dependent conversion energy distribution vortex beams ±2 topological charges; 2) conversions 2‐order cylindrical vector beam. experimental results show that excitation efficiency reach over 92.1%, intensity modulation depth different more than 72.4%. This THz mechanism device scheme increase degree freedom have potential applications in multi‐channel wireless communication, polarization multiplexing imaging, spectrum detection.

Язык: Английский

Процитировано

7

Active control of terahertz quasi-BIC and asymmetric transmission in a liquid-crystal-integrated metasurface DOI
Shi‐Tong Xu,

Junxing Fan,

Zhanqiang Xue

и другие.

Photonics Research, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 12(10), С. 2207 - 2207

Опубликована: Июль 23, 2024

Quasi-bound states in the continuum (quasi-BICs) offer an excellent platform for flexible and efficient control of light-matter interactions by breaking structural symmetry. The active quasi-BIC device has great application potential fields such as optical sensing, nonlinear optics, filters. Herein, we experimentally demonstrate terahertz (THz) induced polarization conversion a liquid crystal (LC)-integrated metasurface, which consists symmetrically broken double-gap split ring resonator (DSRR), LC layer, double graphite electrodes. In process orientation under external field, realizes from OFF state to ON state. state, no effect, behaves non-resonant state; but exhibits obvious resonance. Furthermore, achieve asymmetric transmission based on polarization-induced modulation precisely at resonance position, its isolation can be controlled field. study dynamic LC-integrated metasurface introduces very promising route THz devices, guarantees applications communications, switching, sensing systems.

Язык: Английский

Процитировано

4

Tri-band terahertz polarization reconfigurable reflective metasurface based on liquid crystal DOI
Qi Xie, B. Zhang, Shui Liu

и другие.

Applied Physics Letters, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 126(7)

Опубликована: Фев. 17, 2025

Terahertz technology is poised to revolutionize next-generation wireless communication systems, such as 5G-A and 6G, by addressing the growing need for efficient electromagnetic wave modulation in terahertz frequency band. In this study, we present a reflective metasurface comprising dual metal layers tunable liquid crystal medium, designed achieve dynamic linear-to-circular polarization conversion. Experimental results demonstrate conversion across three bands: 248–254, 265–278, 287–292 GHz. Furthermore, left-hand circular (LHCP)-to-right-hand (RHCP) switching achieved at 248–254 GHz, with stable RHCP state observed 265–278 These findings validate device's ability dynamically control states through applied bias voltage. By enabling precise flexible modulation, provides scalable solution reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, paving way advanced systems future networks.

Язык: Английский

Процитировано

0

Mirror-symmetric multi-OAM vortex beam generation with 1-bit interleaved terahertz metasurfaces DOI

Xu Zhang,

Xunjun He,

Ying Zhang

и другие.

Optics & Laser Technology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 186, С. 112606 - 112606

Опубликована: Фев. 27, 2025

Язык: Английский

Процитировано

0

Terahertz active multi-channel vortices with parity symmetry breaking and near/far field multiplexing based on a dielectric-liquid crystal-plasmonic metadevice DOI Creative Commons
Yiming Wang, Fei Fan, Huijun Zhao

и другие.

Opto-Electronic Advances, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 0(0), С. 240250 - 240250

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

Процитировано

0

Active Broadband Terahertz OAM‐Based Metalens Based on Multi‐Channel Multiplexing DOI Open Access
Huijun Zhao,

Jiaxing Guo,

Fei Fan

и другие.

Laser & Photonics Review, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Март 8, 2025

Abstract Vortex beams with orbital angular momentum (OAM) exhibit immense potential in various fields such as communications, information processing, and optical tweezers. Nevertheless, current terahertz vortex beam generators still face challenges including narrow frequency bands, low efficiency, limited multiplexing capabilities, difficulties dynamic tuning. Here, the study introduces a new electrically controlled multi‐channel strategy that harnesses cascaded helical geometric metasurface, liquid crystal (LC) layer, OAM‐based metalens to achieve comprehensive independent phase manipulation across all four spin channels. Moreover, by employing spin, spatial, OAM multiplexing, LC active control technology, eight distinguishable (SAM)‐OAM coupling states are decoded, enabling of 6 different topological charges. Experimental validation reveals remarkable performance: within broadband range 0.4–0.6 THz, peak excitation efficiency up 94%, each mode purity reaching its highest level >80%, minimum value inter‐mode crosstalk is <–11 dB. This generation conversion mechanism enhances operational flexibility light field manipulation, breaking through limitations channel band, pioneering novel avenue for bolstering parallel mitigating inter‐channel crosstalk.

Язык: Английский

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0

Efficient Manipulation of Near‐Field Terahertz Waves: Individually Addressable Transmissive Meta‐Device DOI
Peng Wang, Xiaojian Fu, Jun Yang

и другие.

Laser & Photonics Review, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Июль 22, 2024

Abstract Due to the powerful capability in manipulating electromagnetic (EM) waves, digital coding and programmable metasurfaces have found vast application prospects across numerous areas such as next‐generation wireless communications holography. Liquid crystals (LCs), dielectric materials with significant birefringence effect over a wide frequency range, provide cost‐effective solution for achieving flexible EM manipulations, especially terahertz (THz) band. Different from conventional 1D control single functionality of transmissive LC‐based devices, here, 16 × addressable amplitude‐phase meta‐device is proposed support multiplexing by using film on glass (FOG) technology. Both numerical simulations experimental results demonstrate that meta‐atom exhibits an amplitude modulation depth 90% phase tuning range ≈180° at two distinct frequencies, hence can multifunctional applications, including near‐field printing imaging, 3D THz energy convergence, zero‐order Bessel beam generation. The strategy paves way constructing highly integrated high‐performance information processing systems.

Язык: Английский

Процитировано

2

Terahertz bandpass and bandstop filter based on the Babinet complementary metamaterials DOI
Guoming Li, Tong Sun,

Jian-Di Li

и другие.

Optics Communications, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 571, С. 130944 - 130944

Опубликована: Авг. 3, 2024

Язык: Английский

Процитировано

1

Making liquid crystals twitch under metamaterial-enhanced terahertz illumination: toward strong optical nonlinearity DOI Creative Commons
Ben Beddoes, Nicholas Klokkou,

Malgosia Kaczmarek

и другие.

Optics Express, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 33(1), С. 1008 - 1008

Опубликована: Дек. 27, 2024

We provide the first direct experimental evidence for reorientation of liquid crystals by polarized radiation from a conventional, low power, oscillator-based terahertz time-domain spectrometer. Using pump - optical probe setup, we observed that occurs locally through resonant amplification field in specially designed planar metamaterial, adjacent to crystal layer, and increases with increasing incident intensity. Our work thus demonstrates it is possible induce strong nonlinearity part spectrum, paving way toward development new all-optical active devices as well electric sensors localized systems.

Язык: Английский

Процитировано

0