Adjustable electromagnetically induced transparency based on terahertz metamaterial embedded with vanadium dioxide

Xiaoting Wu; Wei Wang; Chi Liu; Ying Zhang; Yide Sun

doi:10.1117/12.2602352

24 November 2021 Adjustable electromagnetically induced transparency based on terahertz metamaterial embedded with vanadium dioxide

Xiaoting Wu, Wei Wang, Chi Liu, Ying Zhang, Yide Sun

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Proceedings Volume 12061, AOPC 2021: Infrared Device and Infrared Technology; 120610C (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2602352
Event: Applied Optics and Photonics China 2021, 2021, Beijing, China

Abstract

An adjustable electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) metamaterial embedded with vanadium dioxide (VO₂) is demonstrated at terahertz (THz) region. The unit cell of metamaterial consists of a quartz substrate and two parallel wire metal resonators with different length on top layer. The two ends of the shorter wire metal resonator are filled with VO₂. The short wire metal resonator (SWMR) and the long wire metal resonator (LWMR) are acted as bright mode, which can be directly coupled with the incident THz wave to produce the EIT. Due to the insulator-to-metal transition of VO₂, the amplitude of EIT peak can be actively modulated and the modulation is implemented only in the EIT window with slight changes in transmission dips. When VO₂ is transformed from the insulating phase to the metallic phase with the conductivity changed from 2×10² S/m to 2×10⁵ S/m, the amplitude of the EIT peak can decrease from 0.91 to 0.03, which indicates that the EIT metamaterial achieves a large modulation depth. The physical mechanism of this phenomenon is explained by the magnetic field and current distributions. In addition, it is found that the slow-light effect gradually weakens and disappears with VO₂ changing from the insulating phase to the metallic phase. This work provides a strategy to achieve an adjustable EIT effect in THz metamaterial structure embedded with VO₂and exhibits potential applications in THz modulators and slow-light devices.

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Xiaoting Wu, Wei Wang, Chi Liu, Ying Zhang, and Yide Sun "Adjustable electromagnetically induced transparency based on terahertz metamaterial embedded with vanadium dioxide", Proc. SPIE 12061, AOPC 2021: Infrared Device and Infrared Technology, 120610C (24 November 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2602352

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