Abstract-Dielectric Resonator Reflectarray as High-Efficiency Nonuniform Terahertz Metasurface

Daniel Headland*†, Eduardo Carrasco‡¶, Shruti Nirantar§∥, Withawat Withayachumnankul†⊥, Philipp Gutruf§∥,James Schwarz§∥, Derek Abbott†, Madhu Bhaskaran§∥, Sharath Sriram§∥, Julien Perruisseau-Carrier‡, and Christophe Fumeaux†

† School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia

‡ École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

¶ Foundation for Research on Information Technologies in Society, IT’IS, 8004 Zürich, Switzerland

§Functional Materials and Microsystems Research Group and ∥MicroNano Research Facility, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia

⊥ Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan

ACS Photonics, Article ASAP

DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.6b00102

Publication Date (Web): May 13, 2016

Copyright © 2016 American Chemical Society

*E-mail: daniel.headland@adelaide.edu.au.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsphotonics.6b00102

Advances in terahertz technology rely on the combination of novel materials and designs. As new devices are demonstrated to address the terahertz gap, the ability to perform high-efficiency beam control will be integral to making terahertz radiation a practical technology. Here, we use a metasurface composed of nonuniform dielectric resonator antennas on a ground plane to achieve efficient beam focusing at 1 THz. The dielectric resonators are made of high-resistivity silicon, which is a low-loss, nondispersive material for terahertz waves. The resonators operate around the resonance of the displacement current in the silicon, which is crucial to attaining high efficiency. The reflectarray’s capacity to focus terahertz radiation is experimentally verified, and hence by the principle of antenna reciprocity, it can also be employed as a terahertz collimator. The demonstrated device can therefore be deployed for high-gain terahertz antennas. Further measurements show that the loss of the reflectarray is negligible, which confirms the high efficiency of the dielectric resonators. This finding will enable the design of efficient flat-profile terahertz reflectarrays and metasurfaces to serve arbitrary beam control requirements in the near and far fields.

Abstract-Dielectric resonator reflectarray as high-efficiency non-uniform terahertz metasurface

Daniel Headland, Eduardo Carrasco, Shruti Nirantar, Withawat Withayachumnankul, Philipp Gutruf, James Schwarz, Derek Abbott, Madhu Bhaskaran, Sharath Sriram, Julien Perruisseau-Carrier, and Christophe Fumeaux

ACS Photonics, Just Accepted Manuscript

DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.6b00102

Publication Date (Web): May 13, 2016

Copyright © 2016 American Chemical Society

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsphotonics.6b00102

Abstract

Advances in terahertz technology rely on the combination of novel materials and designs. As new devices are demonstrated to address the terahertz gap, the ability to perform high-efficiency beam control will be integral to making terahertz a practical technology. Here, we use a metasurface composed of nonuniform dielectric resonator antennas on a ground plane to achieve efficient beam focusing at 1 THz. The dielectric resonators are made of high-resistivity silicon, which is a low-loss, non-dispersive material for terahertz waves. The resonators operate around the resonance of displacement current in the silicon, which is crucial to attaining high-efficiency. The reflectarray’s capacity to focus terahertz radiation is experimentally verified, and hence by the principle of antenna reciprocity, it can also be employed as a terahertz collimator. The demonstrated device can therefore be deployed for high-gain terahertz antennas. Further measurements show that the loss of the reflectarray is negligible, which confirms the high efficiency of the dielectric resonators. This finding will enable the design of efficient flat-profile terahertz reflectarrays and metasurfaces to serve arbitrary beam control requirements in the near- and far-field.

Abstract-Terahertz Magnetic Mirror Realized with Dielectric Resonator Antennas

1. Daniel Headland¹, 
2. Shruti Nirantar^2,3,
3. Withawat Withayachumnankul^1,2,4, 
4. Philipp Gutruf^2,3, 
5. Derek Abbott¹, 
6. Madhu Bhaskaran^2,3, 
7. Christophe Fumeaux^1,*and
8. Sharath Sriram^2,3,*

Article first published online: 9 OCT 2015

DOI: 10.1002/adma.201503069

© 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

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Single-crystal silicon is bonded to a metal-coated substrate and etched in order to form an array of microcylinder passive terahertz dielectric resonator antennas (DRAs). The DRAs exhibit a magnetic response, and hence the array behaves as an efficient artificial magnetic conductor (AMC), with potential for terahertz antenna and sensing applications.

Abstract-Terahertz reflectarray as a polarizing beam splitter

Tiaoming Niu, Withawat Withayachumnankul, Aditi Upadhyay, Philipp Gutruf, Derek Abbott, Madhu Bhaskaran, Sharath Sriram, and Christophe Fumeaux  »View Author Affiliations

http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-22-13-16148

Optics Express, Vol. 22, Issue 13, pp. 16148-16160 (2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.22.016148

A reflectarray is designed and demonstrated experimentally for polarization-dependent beam splitting at 1 THz. This reflective component is composed of two sets of orthogonal strip dipoles arranged into interlaced triangular lattices over a ground plane. By varying the length and width of the dipoles a polarization-dependent localized phase change is achieved on reflection, allowing periodic subarrays with a desired progressive phase distribution. Both the simulated field distributions and the measurement results from a fabricated sample verify the validity of the proposed concept. The designed terahertz reflectarray can efficiently separate the two polarization components of a normally incident wave towards different predesigned directions of ±30°. Furthermore, the measured radiation patterns show excellent polarization purity, with a cross-polarization level below −27 dB. The designed reflectarray could be applied as a polarizing beam splitter for polarization-sensitive terahertz imaging or for emerging terahertz communications.

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