Modulation of water surface waves with a coiling-up-space metasurface

H. T. Sun; J. S. Wang; Y. Cheng; Q. Wei; X. J. Liu

doi:10.1063/1.4950962

AIP Advances (May 2016)

Modulation of water surface waves with a coiling-up-space metasurface

H. T. Sun,
J. S. Wang,
Y. Cheng,
Q. Wei,
X. J. Liu

Affiliations

H. T. Sun: School of Electronics and Information, Nantong University, Nantong 226019, China
J. S. Wang: School of Electronics and Information, Nantong University, Nantong 226019, China
Y. Cheng: Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
Q. Wei: Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
X. J. Liu: Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4950962
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 6, no. 5
pp. 055017 – 055017-6

Abstract

Read online

We have designed a gradient-index (GRIN) metasurface to modulate water surface waves (WSWs). The metasurface is composed of an array of coiling-up-space units with a deep sub-wavelength scale, and can focus/scatter WSWs when the units are arranged elaborately and pierced into water. The modulation of WSWs has been ascribed to the relative effective refractive GRIN of the coiling-up-space units, which can be tuned by changing the parameters such as the plate length of units. This work may have potential application in energy extraction of water wave.

Published in AIP Advances

ISSN: 2158-3226 (Online)
Publisher: AIP Publishing LLC
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Science: Physics
Website: http://aipadvances.aip.org/

About the journal