Takehito Suzuki, Kota Endo, and Satoshi Kondoh
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| (a) Terahertz metasurface ultra-thin collimator for power enhancement and (b) the design model of a single meta-atom extracted from the full structure assuming periodicity. |
Manipulation of electromagnetic waves from radio to visible wavelengths could lead to technology to investigate unexplored wavebands. However, flexible control of terahertz waves is difficult, because few naturally occurring, appropriate materials and sophisticated optical components exist. We propose a 2.28-µm (0.02λ) ultra-thin terahertz metasurface collimator with a high directivity of 4.6 times (6.6 dB) consisting of 339 pairs of meta-atoms compared with a single terahertz continuous-wave source. The metasurface exhibits an extremely high refractive index of 15.0 and a low reflectance of 15.5% at 3.0 THz, and with Fresnel reflections for naturally occurring dielectric materials with high refractive indices avoided. This metasurface collimator should facilitate ground-breaking applications such as arbitrary phase converters, solid immersion lenses, and cloaking.
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