Flat Ultrathin Metasurface Parabolic Reflector for THz Applications
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
The efficient use of terahertz (THz) radiation promises to foster many practical applications including nondestructive spectroscopy, imaging, high-speed communication, biological and chemical sensing. In contrast to the neighboring bands, THz technology is relatively underdeveloped due to the lack of efficient and compact components/devices in this frequency regime. Natural materials has only limited responses at terahertz frequencies, therefore, artificial materials such as metamaterials have been explored for realizing terahertz devices. Metasurfaces are two-dimensional analogue of metamaterials, which enable unconventional control of scattering phase at the material interface by tuning the size and shape of subwavelength resonators. A full 2π phase shift from these artificial materials makes it possible to shape the wavefront of the outgoing light to realize anomalous reflection/refraction, flat lens, quarter wave plate, and other applications.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
- DOE Contract Number:
- 89233218CNA000001
- OSTI ID:
- 1493535
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR--19-20932
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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