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OPTICS EXPRESS
卷 22, 期 20, 页码 24142-24148出版社
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.024142
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- UKs Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
- Cross-Disciplinary Interfaces Programme (C-DIP) Fellowship Fund [EP/I017852/1]
- EPSRC [EP/I017852/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/I017852/1] Funding Source: researchfish
The concept of phase change material (PCM) based optical antennas and antenna arrays is proposed for dynamic beam shaping and steering utilized in free-space optical inter/intra chip interconnects. The essence of this concept lies in the fact that the behaviour of PCM based optical antennas will change due to the different optical properties of the amorphous and crystalline state of the PCM. By engineering optical antennas or antenna arrays, it is feasible to design dynamic optical links in a desired manner. In order to illustrate this concept, a PCM based tunable reflectarray is proposed for a scenario of a dynamic optical link between a source and two receivers. The designed reflectarray is able to switch the optical link between two receivers by switching the two states of the PCM. Two types of antennas are employed in the proposed tunable reflectarray to achieve full control of the wavefront of the reflected beam. Numerical studies show the expected binary beam steering at the optical communication wavelength of 1.55 mu m. This study suggests a new research area of PCM based optical antennas and antenna arrays for dynamic optical switching and routing. (C) 2014 Optical Society of America
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