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The electromagnetic wave with spiral wavefront is a vortex beam carrying orbital angular momentum. The phase singularity of the vortex beam has special applications in the fields of particle manipulation and communication. In this paper, a terahertz (THz) wide-band vortex beam generator based on reflective metasurface is proposed and simulated. The device consists of a metasurface-dielectric-metal three-layer structure, and the top layer is a metasurface composed of two orthogonal I-shaped metal structural units. The intermediate layer of polyimide medium, and the bottom layer is of metal as a reflecting plate. The CST microwave studio is used to simulate the reflection performance of unit cell. The structure parameters are optimized to obtain the better performance. A set of optimed structure parameters is determined. According to the phase principle of Pancharatnam-Berry (P-B), by rotating the angle of the top-layer I-type metal structure, the reflection amplitudes of the unit cell structure at different rotation angles are required to approximately equal while the phase changes linearly with rotation angle and reaches a range of 2lπ for the topological charge number l. These cell structures are arranged according to the phase principle mentioned above. The metasurfaces of different topological charge numbers are designed to generate the corresponding vortex beams. In this paper, the metasurfaces with topological charge numbers 1 and 2 are designed. The reflection amplitude and phase of the circularly polarized THz beam incident vertically on the metasurface are simulated by using CST microwave studio. The simulation results show that in a frequency range of 0.8−1.4 THz, the metasurface can convert the circularly polarized terahertz beam into a vortex beam with a different topological charge number. In addition, in order to illustrate that the metasurface designed can produce a higher topological charge number of vortex beam, a metasurface with a topological charge number of 3 is designed as an example. The reflection amplitude and phase of the circularly polarized THz beam at a frequency of 1.1 THz is simulated. The results show that the designed metasurface can produce a vortex beam with a topological charge number of 3. The higher topological charges of vortex beam can also be generated according to the corresponding phase arrangement. The device has a relatively wide operating bandwidth, simple structure, high conversion efficiency, and has the potential application in terahertz vortex beam generation.
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Keywords:
- terahertz /
- vortex beam /
- broadband /
- metasurface
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图 1 超表面单元结构示意图 (a)顶视图; (b)侧视图
Figure 1. Schematic diagram of the unit cell of metasurface: (a) Top view; (b) side view.
图 2 线偏振光入射单元结构产生的反射相位和振幅谱 (a)相位谱; (b)振幅谱
Figure 2. Reflected phase and amplitude spectrum produced by linearly polarized light incident unit call: (a) Phase; (b) amplitude.
图 3 仿真得到的不同转角的相位和反射振幅
Figure 3. The phase and reflection amplitude of different corners simulated.
图 4 不同转角单元结构的反射相位和振幅谱 (a) LCP入射的相位谱; (b) RCP入射的相位谱; (c) LCP入射的振幅谱; (d) RCP入射的振幅谱
Figure 4. Reflective phase and amplitude spectra of unit cell structure under different rotation angle: (a) Phase spectra at LCP incident; (b) phase spectra at RCP incident; (c) amplitude spectra at LCP incident; (d) amplitude spectra at RCP incident.
图 5 两种用于产生拓扑荷数分别为 (a) l = 1和(b) l = 2的涡旋波束超表面结构
Figure 5. Two kinds of metasurface structures for generating the vortex beam with topological charge numbers (a) l = 1 and (b) l = 2.
图 6 超表面产生l = 1和l = 2的涡旋波束反射振幅和相位分布 LCP入射l = 1超表面的(a)振幅分布和(b)相位分布; RCP入射l = 2超表面的(c)振幅分布和(d)相位分布
Figure 6. Reflective amplitude and phase distributions of vortex beams with l = 1 and l = 2 generated by metasurface. LCP incident l = 1 metasurface: (a) amplitude distribution and (b) phase distribution; RCP incident l = 2 metasurface: (c) amplitude distribution and (d) phase distribution.
图 7 不同频率下l = 1和l = 3超表面产生的反射涡旋波束振幅、相位分布 l = 1超表面(a) 0.8 THz频率下振幅分布, (b) 0.8 THz频率下相位分布, (c) 1.4 THz频率下振幅分布, (d) 1.4 THz频率下相位分布; l = 3超表面(e) 1.1 THz频率下振幅分布, (f) 1.1 THz频率下相位分布
Figure 7. The amplitude and phase distribution of reflective vortex beam generated by the LCP incident l = 1 and l = 3 metasurface at different frequencies. l = 1: (a) amplitude distribution at 0.8 THz, (b) phase distribution at 0.8 THz, (c) amplitude distribution at 1.4 THz, (d) phase distribution at 1.4 THz. l = 3: (e) amplitude distribution at 1.1 THz, (f) phase distribution at 1.1 THz.
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[1] Beard M C, Turner G M, Schmuttenmaer C A 2002 J. Phys. Chem. B 106 7146
Google Scholar
[2] Vieweg N, Fischer B M, Reuter M, Kula P, Dabrowsk R, Celik M A, Frenking G, Koch M, Jepsen P U 2012 Opt. Express 20 28249
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[4] Hu B B, Nuss M C 1995 Opt. Lett. 20 1716
Google Scholar
[5] Mittleman D M, Gupta M, Neelamani R, Baraniuk R G, Rudd J V, Koch M 1999 Appl. Phys. B 68 1085
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Fu Y N, Zhang X Q, Zhao G Z, Li Y H, Yu J Y 2017 Acta Phys. Sin. 66 180701
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Li Y H, Zhou L, Zhao G Z 2018 Chin. J. Lasers 45 0314001
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Google Scholar
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[18] Huang J, Pogorzelski R J 1998 IEEE Trans. Antenn. Propag. 46 650
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[20] 周璐, 赵国忠, 李晓楠 2019 物理学报 68 108701
Zhou L, Zhao G Z, Li X N 2019 Acta Phys. Sin. 68 108701
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Google Scholar
[22] Yu N, Genevet P, Kats M A, Aieta F, Tetienne J P, Capasso F, Gaburro Z 2011 Science 334 333
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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