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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 22, Issue 11, Pages 13403-13417Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.013403
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- National High Tech (863) Projects [2012AA030402, 2011AA010202]
- National Science Foundation of China [60990320, 60990324, 61138001]
- 111 Project [111-2-05]
- Joint Research Center on Terahertz Science
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We propose a tunable strategy for the ultrathin mantle cloak via metasurface. The tunable cloak is implemented by loading varactor diodes between two neighboring horizontal metallic strips which constitute the metasurface. We demonstrate that the varactor diodes enable the capacitive reactance of the metasurface to be tunable from -157 Omega to -3 Omega when the DC bias voltage is properly changed. The active metasurface is then explored to cloak conformally a conducting cylinder. Both numerical and experiment results show that the cloaking frequency can be continuously controlled from 2.3 GHz to 3.7 GHz by appropriately adjusting the bias voltage. The flexible tunability and good cloaking performance are further examined by the measured field distributions. The advanced features of tunability, low profile, and conformal ability of the ultrathin cloak pave the way for practical applications of cloaking devices. (C) 2014 Optical Society of America
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