Space-time Metallic Metasurfaces for Frequency Conversion and Beamforming
arXiv:2312.16491 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.21.064018
Abstract
This paper details a class of metal-based space-time metasurfaces for application in wireless communications scenarios. Concretely, we describe space-time metasurfaces that periodically alternate their properties in time between three spatial states: "air", "conductor" and "grating". We analyze the physics of these metastructures via a computationally-efficient analytical technique based on the use of Floquet-Bloch series, integral equations and circuit models. By doing so, we reveal important features of these spatiotemporal metasurfaces: scattering parameters, field profiles, diffraction angles and nature of the space-time harmonics. The results, corroborated with a self-implemented numerical FDTD approach, show the potential application of these space-time metasurfaces as beamformers acting in reflection, in transmission or both. The amplitude and direction of the diffracted orders can be electronically controlled with the paramaters of the metasurface. Moreover, the intrinsic ability of time-modulated diffractive metasurfaces to mix and multiply frequencies is tested. We show how two different modulations can lead to the same diffraction angle but with different mixed output frequencies.
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