Author: Hai-Tao Sun Ying Cheng Jing-Shi Wang Xiao-Jun Liu
Publisher: IOP Publishing
E-ISSN: 1741-4199|24|10|104302-104306
ISSN: 1674-1056
Source: Chinese Physics B, Vol.24, Iss.10, 2015-10, pp. : 104302-104306
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Abstract
We design a planar metasurface to modulate the wavefront of a water surface wave (WSW) on a deep sub-wavelength scale. The metasurface is composed of an array of coiling-up-space units with specially designed parameters, and can take on the work of steering the wavefront when it is pierced into water. Like their acoustic counterparts, the modulation of WSW is ascribed to the gradient phase shift of the coiling-up-space units, which can be perfectly tuned by changing the coiling plate length and channel number inside the units. According to the generalized Snell’s law, negative refraction and ‘driven’ surface mode of WSW are also demonstrated at certain incidences. Specially, the transmitted WSW could be efficiently guided out by linking a symmetrically-corrugated channel in ‘driven’ surface mode. This work may have potential applications in water wave energy extraction and coastal protection.
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