Journal
SENSORS
Volume 23, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s23031174
Keywords
photo-switching; terahertz; reconfigurable metasurface; ultrafast dynamics
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Researchers have developed an all-optically controlled reconfigurable material for modulating terahertz waves in 6G communication. The material allows efficient modulation and slow light behavior, with sub-nanosecond modulation speed. It provides a promising candidate for on-chip devices in 6G communication.
The sixth generation (6G) communication will use the terahertz (THz) frequency band, which requires flexible regulation of THz waves. For the conventional metallic metasurface, its electromagnetic properties are hard to be changed once after being fabricated. To enrich the modulation of THz waves, we report an all-optically controlled reconfigurable electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) effect in the hybrid metasurface integrated with a 10-nm thick MoTe2 film. The experimental results demonstrate that under the excitation of the 800 nm femtosecond laser pulse with pump fluence of 3200 mu J/cm(2), the modulation depth of THz transmission amplitude at the EIT window can reach 77%. Moreover, a group delay variation up to 4.6 ps is observed to indicate an actively tunable slow light behavior. The suppression and recovery of the EIT resonance can be accomplished within sub-nanoseconds, enabling an ultrafast THz photo-switching and providing a promising candidate for the on-chip devices of the upcoming 6G communication.
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