49 research outputs found
Near infrared and optical beam steering and frequency splitting in air holes-in-silicon inverse photonic crystals
We present the design of a dielectric inverse photonic crystal structure that couples line-defect waveguide propagating modes into highly directional beams of controllable directionality. The structure utilizes a triangular lattice made of air holes drilled in an infinitely thick Si slab, and it is designed for operation in the near-infrared and optical regime. The structure operation is based on the excitation and manipulation of dark dielectric surface states, in particular on the tailoring of the dark states’ coupling to outgoing radiation. This coupling is achieved with the use of properly designed external corrugations. The structure adapts and matches modes that travel through the photonic crystal and the free space. Moreover it facilitates the steering of the outgoing waves, is found to generate well-defined, spatially and spectrally isolated beams, and may serve as a frequency splitting component designed for operation in the near-infrared regime and in particular the telecom optical wavelength band. The design complies with the state-of-the-art Si nanofabrication technology and can be directly scaled for operation in the optical regime
Joint Compressed Sensing and Manipulation of Wireless Emissions with Intelligent Surfaces
Programmable, intelligent surfaces can manipulate electromagnetic waves
impinging upon them, producing arbitrarily shaped reflection, refraction and
diffraction, to the benefit of wireless users. Moreover, in their recent form
of HyperSurfaces, they have acquired inter-networking capabilities, enabling
the Internet of Material Properties with immense potential in wireless
communications. However, as with any system with inputs and outputs, accurate
sensing of the impinging wave attributes is imperative for programming
HyperSurfaces to obtain a required response. Related solutions include field
nano-sensors embedded within HyperSurfaces to perform minute measurements over
the area of the HyperSurface, as well as external sensing systems. The present
work proposes a sensing system that can operate without such additional
hardware. The novel scheme programs the HyperSurface to perform compressed
sensing of the impinging wave via simple one-antenna power measurements. The
HyperSurface can jointly be programmed for both wave sensing and wave
manipulation duties at the same time. Evaluation via simulations validates the
concept and highlight its promising potential.Comment: Published at IEEE DCOSS 2019 / IoT4.0 workshop
(https://www.dcoss.org/workshops.html). Funded by the European Union via the
Horizon 2020: Future Emerging Topics - Research and Innovation Action call
(FETOPEN-RIA), grant EU736876, project VISORSURF (http://www.visorsurf.eu
Single scattering and effective medium description in multilayer cylindrical metamaterials: Application to graphene and metasurface coated cylinders
Coated and multicoated cylinder systems constitute an appealing metamaterial
category, as they allow a very rich and highly tunable response, resulting from
the interplay of the many different geometrical and material parameters
involved. Here we derive and propose an effective medium approach for the
detailed description and analysis of the electromagnetic wave propagation in
such systems. In particular, we investigate infinitely-long multilayered
cylinders with additional electric and magnetic surface conductivities at each
interface. Our effective medium approach is based on the well known in the
solid state physics community Coherent Potential Approximation (CPA) method,
combined with a transfer matrix-based formulation for cylindrical waves.
Employing this effective medium scheme, we investigate two realistic systems,
one comprising of cylindrical tubes made of uniform tunable graphene sheets and
one of cylinders/tubes formed of metasurfaces exhibiting both electric and
magnetic sheet conductivities. Both systems show a rich palette of engineerable
electromagnetic features, including tunable hyperbolic response, double
negative response and epsilon-near-zero and mu-near-zero response regions