Signal conversion plays an important role in many applications such as communication,sensing,and imaging.Realizing signal conversion between optical and microwave frequencies is a crucial step to construct hybrid comm...Signal conversion plays an important role in many applications such as communication,sensing,and imaging.Realizing signal conversion between optical and microwave frequencies is a crucial step to construct hybrid communication systems that combine both optical and microwave wireless technologies to achieve better features,which are highly desirable in the future wireless communications.However,such a signal conversion process typically requires a complicated relay to perform multiple operations,which will consume additional hardware/time/energy resources.Here,we report a light-to-microwave transmitter based on the time-varying and programmable metasurface integrated with a high-speed photoelectric detection circuit into a hybrid.Such a transmitter can convert a light intensity signal to two microwave binary frequency shift keying signals by using the dispersion characteristics of the metasurface to implement the frequency division multiplexing.To illustrate the metasurface-based transmitter,a hybrid wireless communication system that allows dual-channel data transmissions in a light-to-microwave link is demonstrated,and the experimental results show that two different videos can be transmitted and received simultaneously and independently.Our metasurface-enabled signal conversion solution may enrich the functionalities of metasurfaces,and could also stimulate new information-oriented applications.展开更多
Programmable metasurfaces enable real-time control of electromagnetic waves in a digital coding manner,which are suitable for implementing time-domain metasurfaces with strong harmonic manipulation capabilities.Howeve...Programmable metasurfaces enable real-time control of electromagnetic waves in a digital coding manner,which are suitable for implementing time-domain metasurfaces with strong harmonic manipulation capabilities.However,the time-domain metasurfaces are usually realized by adopting the wired electrical control method,which is effective and robust,but there are still some limitations.Here,we propose a light-controllable time-domain digital coding metasurface consisting of a full-polarization dynamic metasurface and a high-speed photoelectric detection circuit,from which the microwave reflection spectra are manipulated by time-varying light signals with periodic phase modulations.As demonstrated,the light-controllable timedomain digital coding metasurface is illuminated by the light signals with two designed time-coding sequences.The measured results show that the metasurface can well generate symmetrical harmonics and white-noise-like spectra,respectively,under such cases in the reflected wave.The proposed lightcontrollable time-varying metasurface offers a planar interface to tailor and link microwaves with lights in the time domain,which could promote the development of photoelectric hybrid metasurfaces and related multiphysics applications.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2017YFA0700201,2017YFA0700203,and 2016YFC0800401)the Major Project of the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK20212002)+5 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61890544 and 61631007)the China National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents(BX2021063)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2021M700762)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2242021k30040)the Foundation of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China(201444)the 111 Project(111-2-05).
文摘Signal conversion plays an important role in many applications such as communication,sensing,and imaging.Realizing signal conversion between optical and microwave frequencies is a crucial step to construct hybrid communication systems that combine both optical and microwave wireless technologies to achieve better features,which are highly desirable in the future wireless communications.However,such a signal conversion process typically requires a complicated relay to perform multiple operations,which will consume additional hardware/time/energy resources.Here,we report a light-to-microwave transmitter based on the time-varying and programmable metasurface integrated with a high-speed photoelectric detection circuit into a hybrid.Such a transmitter can convert a light intensity signal to two microwave binary frequency shift keying signals by using the dispersion characteristics of the metasurface to implement the frequency division multiplexing.To illustrate the metasurface-based transmitter,a hybrid wireless communication system that allows dual-channel data transmissions in a light-to-microwave link is demonstrated,and the experimental results show that two different videos can be transmitted and received simultaneously and independently.Our metasurface-enabled signal conversion solution may enrich the functionalities of metasurfaces,and could also stimulate new information-oriented applications.
基金supported by the China National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents (Grant No. BX2021063)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2021M700762)+4 种基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant Nos. 2017YFA0700201, 2017YFA0700203, and 2016YFC0800401)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61890544, 61631007, 61571117, 61731010, 61735010, 61722106, 61701107, and 61701108)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No 2242021k30040)the Foundation of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China (Grant No. 201444)the 111 Project (Grant No. 111-2-05)
文摘Programmable metasurfaces enable real-time control of electromagnetic waves in a digital coding manner,which are suitable for implementing time-domain metasurfaces with strong harmonic manipulation capabilities.However,the time-domain metasurfaces are usually realized by adopting the wired electrical control method,which is effective and robust,but there are still some limitations.Here,we propose a light-controllable time-domain digital coding metasurface consisting of a full-polarization dynamic metasurface and a high-speed photoelectric detection circuit,from which the microwave reflection spectra are manipulated by time-varying light signals with periodic phase modulations.As demonstrated,the light-controllable timedomain digital coding metasurface is illuminated by the light signals with two designed time-coding sequences.The measured results show that the metasurface can well generate symmetrical harmonics and white-noise-like spectra,respectively,under such cases in the reflected wave.The proposed lightcontrollable time-varying metasurface offers a planar interface to tailor and link microwaves with lights in the time domain,which could promote the development of photoelectric hybrid metasurfaces and related multiphysics applications.