Angular-asymmetric transmitting metasurface and splitter for acoustic wave: a combining of the Coherent Perfect Absorber and Laser

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel metasurface design that combines coherent perfect absorption and laser principles to control acoustic wave transmission and splitting with angular asymmetry, simplifying design and linking metasurfaces with non-Hermitian physics.

Contribution

It extends CPA and Laser concepts to two-dimensional systems, enabling simplified design of acoustic metasurfaces with asymmetric transmission and wave splitting capabilities.

Findings

Designed an angular-asymmetric transmitting metasurface.

Achieved perfect transmission and retro-reflection for specific angles.

Demonstrated wave splitting with arbitrary amplitude and phase control.

Abstract

Coherent Perfect Absorber (CPA) and Laser is a pair of inversely worked wave structure satisfying the time-reversal relation. We point out that, if the wave energy absorbed by CPA can be recovered by somewhat way and then be reemitted by its corresponded Laser, their combination can be a wave-controlling device that can "move" the wave energy from one place to another. By extending the concepts of CPA and Laser from the previously studied one-dimensional non-Hermitian systems to the two-dimensional ones, this understanding is used to simplify the designing of the metasurface in this letter. As examples, an angular-asymmetric transmitting metasurface and wave splitter, which acts as perfect transmitter/retro-reflector for waves coming from two oppositely tilted angles and split an incident wave into two directions with arbitrary amplitude ratio and phase difference, respectively, are constructed by combining two pieces of the separately designed CPAs. The idea can not only greatly simplify the designing of metasurface, but also bridge the researches between the metasurface and non-Hermitian system.