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Five-channel frequency-division multiplexing using low-loss epsilon-near-zero metamaterial waveguide

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The rapidly growing global data usage has demanded more efficient ways to utilize the scarce electromagnetic spectrum resource. Recent research has focused on the development of efficient multiplexing techniques in the millimeter-wave band (1–10 mm, or 30–300 GHz) due to the promise of large available bandwidth for future wireless networks. Frequency-division multiplexing is still one of the most commonly-used techniques to maximize the transmission capacity of a wireless network. Based on the frequency-selective tunnelling effect of the low-loss epsilon-near-zero metamaterial waveguide, we numerically and experimentally demonstrate five-channel frequency-division multiplexing and demultiplexing in the millimeter-wave range. We show that this device architecture offers great flexibility to manipulate the filter Q-factors and the transmission spectra of different channels, by changing of the epsilon-near-zero metamaterial waveguide topology and by adding a standard waveguide between two epsilon-near-zero channels. This strategy of frequency-division multiplexing may pave a way for efficiently allocating the spectrum for future communication networks.

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  1. Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China

    Binbin Hong, Lei Sun, Wanlin Wang, Yanbing Qiu, Naixing Feng & Guo ** Wang

  2. The Tenth Research Institute, China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Chengdu, 610036, China

    Dong Su

  3. School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK

    Nutapong Somjit & Ian Robertson

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11734012, 62105213, 12074267, 516022053, and 12174265), the Young Innovative Talents Project of Universities in Guangdong Province (Grant No. 2019KQNCX123), the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Fund (Grant No. 2020A1515111037), the Science and Technology Project of Guangdong (Grant No. 2020B010190001), the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 2020A1515010467), the Shenzhen Fundamental Research Program (Grant No. 20200814113625003), and the Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics (Grant No. SKLAO2020001A06). The authors thank Lei Ge and Shuai Gao for their help during the measurement.

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Hong, B., Sun, L., Wang, W. et al. Five-channel frequency-division multiplexing using low-loss epsilon-near-zero metamaterial waveguide. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 65, 274211 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-021-1901-0

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