Tunable flat lens based on microfluidic reconfigurable metasurface

Author

Zhu, W.M. ; Song, Q.H. ; Yan, L.B. ; Zhang, W. ; Wu, P.C. ; Chin, L.K. ; Yang, Z.C. ; Shen, Z.X. ; Deng, T.W. ; Ting, S.K. ; Cai, H. ; Gu, Y.D. ; Kwong, D.L. ; Bourouina, T. ; Leprince, Y. ; Liu, A.Q.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2015

fDate

21-25 June 2015

Firstpage

1989

Lastpage

1992

Abstract

A tunable flat lens is demonstrated based on reconfigurable metasurface, which is realized via changing the phase gradient of the metasurface in sub-wavelength level. The sub-wavelength metamolecules are formed by enclosing a liquid metal plug within microfluidic cavities, which can be tuned by changing the geometry of the metamolecules. The tunable flat lens is consisted of soft material with controllable functionalities. In simulation, the tuning of the focal length from 5 λ to 7 λ is demonstrated as the proof of concept. This reconfigurable metasurface can be used as a standard guideline to design different electromagnetic wave manipulation systems in realizing the dynamic control of beam steering, anti-reflection and focusing functionalities etc.

Keywords

lenses; microfluidics; optical metamaterials; optical tuning; anti-reflection; beam steering; controllable functionalities; dynamic control; electromagnetic wave manipulation systems; focal length tuning; liquid metal plug; microfluidic cavities; microfluidic reconfigurable metasurface; phase gradient; soft material; sub-wavelength metamolecules; tunable flat lens; Lenses; Liquids; Magnetic materials; Metals; Metamaterials; Microfluidics; Optical polarization; Optofluidic metamaterials; metasurface; microfluidic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS), 2015 Transducers - 2015 18th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Anchorage, AK

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2015.7181344

Filename

7181344