Self-biased magneto-optical non-reciprocal metasurface device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11747518-B2
Application number	US-202117200944-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 15, 2021
Priority date	Jan 13, 2020
Publication date	Sep 5, 2023
Grant date	Sep 5, 2023

Abstract

The disclosure provides a self-biased magneto-optical non-reciprocal metasurface device. The device includes substrate layer and a sub-wavelength structure layer. The substrate layer is a material layer with a refractive index of 1 to 5 in a microwave frequency band. The sub-wavelength structure layer includes a plurality of square columnar elements arranged in a matrix period with equal period in row and column directions. The square columnar elements include magneto-optical material. The adjustment of phase and amplitude of a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave is achieved by changing the length, width and height of the square columnar elements, and thus the device attains a desired isolation and insertion loss at a center frequency f 0 . The parameters of the magneto-optical material are: coercivity Hc≥1000 A/m; remanence Br≥1 kGs; a voigt parameter of a permittivity tensor or permeability tensor in a working frequency band≥0.01.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A device, comprising:
a substrate layer; and
a sub-wavelength structure layer;

wherein:
the substrate layer is a material layer with a refractive index of 1 to 5 in a microwave frequency band;
the sub-wavelength structure layer comprises a plurality of square columnar elements arranged in a matrix period with equal period in row and column directions;
the square columnar elements comprise a magneto-optical material;
adjustment of phase and amplitude of a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave is achieved by changing the length, width and height of the square columnar elements, and thus the device attains a desired isolation and insertion loss at a center frequency f 0 ;
parameters of the magneto-optical material are:
coercivity Hc≥1000 A/m; remanence Br≥1 kGs; a voigt parameter of a permittivity tensor or permeability tensor in a working frequency band≥0.01;
self-biased work state is achieved by utilizing the remanence, and a magneto-optical effect provides non-reciprocity;
a thickness of the substrate layer is L, the square columnar elements have a height of h, a length of w 1 and a width of w 2 ; the square columnar elements are arranged to form a matrix array with equal row and column periods p; the device size is D 1 ×D 2 ; the device responds to circularly polarized incident electromagnetic waves; dimensions of the device satisfy the relationship: w 1 ≤10 mm, w 2 =0.75 w 1 −1.25 w 1 , h=w 1 −3 w 1 , p=3 w 1 −4 w 1 , L=1/2 w 1 −2 w 1 , D 1 =10λ 0 −15λ 0 , D 2 =10λ 0 −15λ 0 , λ 0 =c/f 0 , and c is a speed of light in vacuum; and
a thickness of the device is sub-wavelength; the device is magnetized only once; and a remanence direction is parallel to an incident electromagnetic wave direction.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the magneto-optical material comprises ferrite or Yttrium iron garnet (YIG).

3. The device of claim 1 , wherein the substrate layer comprises polytetrafluoroethylene.

Assignees

• Univ Electronic Sci & Tech China

Inventors

• Bi Lei
• Yang Weihao
• Qin Jun
• Long Jiawei
• Deng Longjiang

Classifications

• G02B1/002 Primary

  made of materials engineered to provide properties not available in nature, e.g. metamaterials · CPC title

• G02F1/133606

  including a specially adapted diffusing, scattering or light controlling members · CPC title

• G02F1/133504

  Diffusing, scattering, diffracting elements (associated to illuminating devices G02F1/133606) · CPC title

• G02F1/133541

  Circular polarisers · CPC title

• G02B5/30 Primary

  Polarising elements (light-modulating devices with active elements G02F1/00) · CPC title