Making sound vortices by metasurfaces

Liping Ye, Chunyin Qiu, Jiuyang Lu, Kun Tang, Han Jia, Manzhu Ke, Shasha Peng, Zhengyou Liu

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Abstract

Based on the Huygens-Fresnel principle, a metasurface structure is designed to generate a sound vortex beam in airborne environment. The metasurface is constructed by a thin planar plate perforated with a circular array of deep subwavelength resonators with desired phase and amplitude responses. The metasurface approach in making sound vortices is validated well by full-wave simulations and experimental measurements. Potential applications of such artificial spiral beams can be anticipated, as exemplified experimentally by the torque effect exerting on an absorbing disk.

Original languageEnglish
Article number085007
JournalAIP Advances
Volume6
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Aug 2016
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
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Funding

This work is supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2015CB755500); National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11374233, 11504275, 11574233 and 11534013)

FundersFunder number
National Natural Science Foundation of China11374233, 11574233, 11534013, 11504275
National Key Research and Development Program of China2015CB755500

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