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Reconfigurable Metasurfaces for Dynamic Polarization Control

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Metasurfaces: Towards Tunable and Reconfigurable Meta-devices

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Polarization is a property of electromagnetic waves that specifies the orientations of the electrical and magnetic fields, respecting the propagation directions. Many devices, e.g., waveplates, have been proposed to convert the electromagnetic waves’ polarization states into desired ones for vast applications, including beamforming, optical tweezers, optical isolation, telecommunications, etc. Metasurfaces are arrays of subwavelength meta-molecules designed to control the incident electromagnetic waves’ phase, amplitude, and polarization states. Microfluidic metasurfaces have more flexibility in the phase profile controls, which are enabled by the symmetry tuning of the meta-molecules. The pixel-by-pixel tuning of the meta-molecules can be applied to the metasurfaces with reconfigurable output wavefronts, allowing meta-devices with switchable functionalities. More importantly, rationally designed meta-molecules composed of liquid-state materials can selectively control incidences with different polarization states. This chapter discusses microfluidic metasurfaces for arbitrary and independent control of incident electromagnetic waves with orthogonal polarization states.

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    Weiming Zhu

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    Ai-Qun Liu

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Zhu, W., Liu, AQ. (2023). Reconfigurable Metasurfaces for Dynamic Polarization Control. In: Metasurfaces: Towards Tunable and Reconfigurable Meta-devices. Microfluidics and Nanophotonics: Science and Engineering, vol 1. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6925-6_9

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