1 南京大学电子科学与工程学院，超导电子学研究所，江苏 南京 210023
2 紫金山实验室，江苏 南京 211111
提出了一种在超表面中嵌入二氧化钒（VO2）从而对太赫兹波进行动态调控的方法。VO2在68 ℃左右会发生绝缘体到金属的相变，导致其电导率发生4~5个数量级的显著变化。超表面由一个双开口金属谐振环阵列以及金属环开口处嵌入的VO2结构组成。仿真结果表明，通过改变VO2的电导率，太赫兹波可以实现高频与低频之间的谐振模式的切换。值得注意的是，这种模式转换不仅可以在实验中通过直接改变环境温度实现，还可以通过激光和强场太赫兹的泵浦完成。这种多样化的激励为该超表面在实际多场景应用中动态调控太赫兹波提供了参考。
光电子学 太赫兹 超材料与超表面 二氧化钒 激光泵浦 强场太赫兹 中国激光
2023, 50(17): 1714015
Author Affiliations
Abstract
1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, 110 Cummington Mall, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
2 Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093, USA
3 Army Research Laboratory, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, Maryland 20783, USA
4 e-mail: raveritt@ucsd.edu
We investigate the nonlinear response of terahertz (THz) metamaterial perfect absorbers consisting of electric split ring resonators on GaAs integrated with a polyimide spacer and gold ground plane. These perfect absorbers on bulk semi-insulating GaAs are characterized using high-field THz time-domain spectroscopy. The resonance frequency redshifts 20 GHz and the absorbance is reduced by 30% as the incident peak field is increased from 30 to 300 kV/cm. The nonlinear response arises from THz field driven interband transitions and intervalley scattering in the GaAs. To eliminate the Fresnel losses from the GaAs substrate, we design and fabricate a flexible metamaterialsaturable perfect absorber. The ability to create nonlinear absorbers enables appealing applications such as optical limiting and self-focusing.authors would like to thank the Boston University Photonics Center for technical support.
Far infrared or terahertz Far infrared or terahertz Metamaterials Metamaterials Nonlinear optical Nonlinear optical Photonics Research
2016, 4(3): 03000A16
