Terahertz Reconfigurable Metasurface for Dynamic Non-Diffractive Orbital Angular Momentum Beams using Vanadium Dioxide

Abstract

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) generation based on metasurfaces has attracted tremendous interest due to its potential in capacity enhancement of high-speed wireless communication systems. Reconfigurability is one of the key desired characteristics for the design of future metasurfaces. In this paper, a metasurface taking advantage of vanadium dioxide (VO2) is proposed. The proposed design can generate a non-diffractive OAM beam and achieve the multiple reconfigurability of the topological charge, beam radius, beam deflection angle. The operation frequency can be adjusted by controlling the state of VO2 at terahertz (THz) region. Simulation results demonstrate that the designed metasurface can generate a non-diffractive OAM beam with tunable topological charge and beam radius, propagating along ±x or ±y directions with the controllable deflection angle between 6.74° and 44.77°, ranging from 0.69 THz to 0.79 THz.

Keywords

• Terahertz (THz)
• reconfigurable metasurface
• $\text{VO}_{2}$ )%22%2C%22default_operator%22%3A%22AND%22%7D%7D%7D"> vanadium dioxide (<named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" content-type="math" xlink:type="simple"> <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\text{VO}_{2}$</tex-math> </inline-formula> </named-content>)
• orbital angular momentum (OAM)
• topological charge (TC)
• non-diffractive beam