• 文献标题:   Experimental Demonstration of > 230 degrees Phase Modulation in Gate-Tunable Graphene-Gold Reconfigurable Mid-Infrared Metasurfaces
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SHERROTT MC, HON PWC, FOUNTAINE KT, GARCIA JC, PONTI SM, BRAR VW, SWEATLOCK LA, ATWATER HA
  • 作者关键词:   metasurface, graphene, phase modulation, fieldeffect modulation, beam steering, midinfrared
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   CALTECH
  • 被引频次:   87
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b00359
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Metasurfaces offer significant potential to control far-field light propagation through the engineering of the amplitude, polarization, and phase at an interface. We report here the phase modulation of an electronically reconfigurable metasurface and demonstrate its utility for mid-infrared beam steering. Using a gate-tunable graphene-gold resonator geometry, we demonstrate highly tunable reflected phase at multiple wavelengths and show up to 237 degrees phase modulation range at an operating wavelength of 8.50 mu m. We observe a smooth monotonic modulation of phase with applied voltage from 0 degrees to 206 degrees at a wavelength of 8.70 mu m. Based on these experimental data, we demonstrate with antenna array calculations an average beam steering efficiency of 23% for reflected light for angles up to 30 degrees for this range of phases, confirming the suitability of this geometry for reconfigurable mid-infrared beam steering devices. By incorporating all nonidealities of the device into the antenna array calculations including absorption losses which could be mitigated, 1% absolute efficiency is achievable up to 30 degrees.