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A metasurface-based full-color circular auto-focusing Airy beam transmitter for stable high-speed underwater wireless optical communications

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  • Junhui Hu

    (Fudan University)

  • Zeyuan Guo

    (Harbin Institute of Technology)

  • Jianyang Shi

    (Fudan University)

  • Xiong Jiang

    (Harbin Institute of Technology)

  • Qinmiao Chen

    (Harbin Institute of Technology)

  • Hui Chen

    (Peng Cheng Laboratory)

  • Zhixue He

    (Peng Cheng Laboratory)

  • Qinghai Song

    (Harbin Institute of Technology
    Peng Cheng Laboratory)

  • Shumin Xiao

    (Harbin Institute of Technology
    Peng Cheng Laboratory)

  • Shaohua Yu

    (Fudan University
    Peng Cheng Laboratory)

  • Nan Chi

    (Fudan University
    Peng Cheng Laboratory)

  • Chao Shen

    (Fudan University
    Peng Cheng Laboratory)

Abstract

Due to its unique intensity distribution, self-acceleration, and beam self-healing properties, Airy beam holds great potential for optical wireless communications in challenging channels, such as underwater environments. As a vital part of 6G wireless network, the Internet of Underwater Things requires high-stability, low-latency, and high-capacity underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC). Currently, the primary challenge of UWOC lies in the prevalent time-varying and complex channel characteristics. Conventional blue Gaussian beam-based systems face difficulties in underwater randomly perturbed links. In this work, we report a full-color circular auto-focusing Airy beams metasurface transmitter for reliable, large-capacity and long-distance UWOC links. The metasurface is designed to exhibits high polarization conversion efficiency over a wide band (440-640 nm), enabling an increased data transmission rate of 91% and reliable 4 K video transmission in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) based UWOC data link. The successful application of this metasurface in challenging UWOC links establishes a foundation for underwater interconnection scenarios in 6G communication.

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  • Junhui Hu & Zeyuan Guo & Jianyang Shi & Xiong Jiang & Qinmiao Chen & Hui Chen & Zhixue He & Qinghai Song & Shumin Xiao & Shaohua Yu & Nan Chi & Chao Shen, 2024. "A metasurface-based full-color circular auto-focusing Airy beam transmitter for stable high-speed underwater wireless optical communications," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-9, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:15:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-024-47105-x
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47105-x
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