基于表面等离激元的超薄隐身套的实验验证
Experimental Verification of Super-Thin Cloaks Based on Surface Plasmon Polaritons
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摘要: 针对超材料透波隐身套厚度大的问题,提出了基于表面等离激元的超薄隐身套,通过超材料套层将入射电磁波耦合为表面等离激元波并传输至障碍物后方,实现超薄透波隐身。设计了基于开口谐振环的表面等离激元耦合层,将其包覆在金属圆柱表面,制作了基于表面等离激元的超薄隐身套原理样件并进行了对比测试。实验结果表明,该隐身套在其厚度仅为工作波长的1/30 时具有良好的绕行透波性能。Abstract: Dealing with the large thickness problem of electromagnetic cloaks, super-thin cloaks based on surface plasmon polariton (SPP) is proposed. By coupling incident electromagnetic waves as sub-wavelength SPP in the cloaking layer, incident electromagnetic waves are transfer to the shadowed region behind the cloaked object, so as to achieve cloaking effect. SPP coupler layer was designed using split-ring resonators and then is put on the surface of a metallic cylinder. In this way, a super-thin cloak sample was fabricated and then measured for comparison. The experiment results show that the cloak can achieve quite good cloaking effect with a thin thickness less than 1/30 the operating wavelength.