Highly efficient acoustic refractive metasurfaces by harnessing near field coupling
arXiv:1906.10862 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.12.034021
Abstract
Typical acoustic refractive metasurfaces governed by generalized Snell law require several types of subwavelength subunits to provide an extra phase gradient along the surface. This design strategy, however, has several kinds of drawback. For instance, the inevitable viscous loss brought out by the complex subwavelength subunits, and the negligence of the coupling between adjacent subunits which leads to low-efficiency in wavefront manipulation, especially for large angles. To overcome these limitations, we propose a new type of refractive metasurface composed of only one straight channel and several surface-etched grooves per period. By harnessing the nonlocal coupling between the channel/grooves, and the evanescent modes inside them, superiorly feasible acoustic transmission manipulations can be achieved. Nearly perfect acoustic bending with transmission efficiency up to 95% is demonstrated with theory and experiments for an extremely large angle of 81 degree. The reported results introduce a novel concept of acoustic metasurfaces and offer a real leap towards the development of high-efficient acoustic devices for wavefront manipulation.
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