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ArticleNature communications2024

A synthetic moving-envelope metasurface antenna for independent control of arbitrary harmonic orders.

Geng-Bo Wu, Jun Yan Dai, Kam Man Shum, Ka Fai Chan, Qiang Cheng, Tie Jun Cui, Chi Hou Chan

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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Geng-Bo Wu *State Key Laboratory of Terahertz and Millimeter Waves (City University of Hong Kong), Hong Kong, 999077, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8226-1663
Jun Yan Dai *State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China. junyand@seu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1589-1232
Kam Man ShumState Key Laboratory of Terahertz and Millimeter Waves (City University of Hong Kong), Hong Kong, 999077, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8750-8581
Ka Fai ChanState Key Laboratory of Terahertz and Millimeter Waves (City University of Hong Kong), Hong Kong, 999077, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5719-6855
Qiang ChengState Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China. qiangcheng@seu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2442-8357
Tie Jun CuiState Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China. tjcui@seu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5862-1497
Chi Hou ChanState Key Laboratory of Terahertz and Millimeter Waves (City University of Hong Kong), Hong Kong, 999077, China. eechic@cityu.edu.hk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9718-0831

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Flexible frequency controls are crucial in many photonic and electronic applications, ranging from communications systems, spectroscopy, and metrology to quantum information processing. However, the state-of-the-art solutions based on nonlinear bulk media, electro-optic effect, and nonlinear metasurfaces incur very limited spectral controllability, and merely a couple of harmonic orders can be independently manipulated. Here, we theoretically propose and experimentally demonstrate synthetic moving-envelope metasurface antennas capable of simultaneously generating arbitrary harmonic orders and independently manipulating their wave properties in a software-defined manner. As proof-of-principle examples, we demonstrate unidirectional frequency transition, frequency comb generation, arbitrary harmonic orders independent control, and their applications in frequency-division multiplexing communications. All these complicated functionalities are achieved by the 1-bit spatiotemporally ON-OFF switching of meta-atoms of the waveguide-integrated metasurface antenna. Our proposed synthetic metasurface antenna solution greatly expands the frontiers of wave engineering and information manipulation, showing promising potential in wireless communications, spectroscopy, metrology, and quantum science.

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