Beam steering devices can be used for various applications such as light detection and ranging and free space optical communication. The conventional methods for the beam steering are based on the mechanical rotation of mirrors and cause bulk form-factor and limited operation speed. The metasurfaces are arrays of dielectric or metallic antennas that can tailor the optical properties such as amplitude and phase at the deep subwavelength range. Here, we present the all-dielectric metasurface that can modulate the reflection phase >270° with high reflectivity >60% as a function of the individually applied voltage in the near infrared regime.
Metasurfaces provide versatile platforms for arbitrary wavefront shaping with designer optical response such as amplitude, phase, and polarization at the deep subwavelength regime. Tunable metasurfaces can bring additional degree of freedom in terms of the time-dependent change of these responses, which can pave a way for novel applications such as wide-field-of-view holographic display and light detection and ranging (LiDAR). In this talk, we present the all-dielectric metasurface array that can modulate the phase of light above 270° in reflection with high reflectivity over 60% as a function of the individually applied voltage in the near infrared regime.
For the first time, we present an active 2D metasurface array and its demonstrated versatile beam steering. The array is composed of individually-addressable, gate-controlled 10×10 pixels where each pixel modulates the phase of light in reflection. Each pixel is a gated plasmonic nanoresonator with an indium tin oxide (ITO) layer embedded in its middle. When proper gate biases are applied to the array, the refractive index of the ITO layer changes, generating a phase gradient necessary for dynamic beam steering. By generating a reconfigurable binary phase grating, we have successfully demonstrated full-area, 2D arbitrary beam steering.
We present an electrically tunable metasurface and demonstrate an ultrafast beam steering and distance-ranging. A unit cell of the proposed device consists of plasmonic antennas and an ITO film as an active, tunable layer. By individually applying electrical biases to the top and bottom of the unit cell, we achieve in the near-infrared range a phase change up to 360 degrees while keeping the amplitude constant. An adjustable gradient phase profile allows for all solid-state-electronic beam steering. Using the Time-of-Flight principle, we demonstrate for the first time metaphotonic-light detection and ranging (Meta-LiDAR).
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