Browsing by Author "Chen, Hou-Tong"

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    Audio misinformation encoding via an on-phone sub-terahertz metasurface
    (Optica Publishing Group, 2024) Shaikhanov, Zhambyl; Al-Madi, Mahmoud; Chen, Hou-Tong; Chang, Chun-Chieh; Addamane, Sadhvikas; Mittleman, Daniel M.; Knightly, Edward W.
    We demonstrate a wireless security application to protect the weakest link in phone-to-phone communication, using a terahertz metasurface. To our knowledge, this is the first example of an eavesdropping countermeasure in which the attacker is actively misled.
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    Hybrid graphene metasurfaces for high-speed mid-infrared light modulation and single-pixel imaging
    (Springer Nature, 2018) Zeng, Beibei; Huang, Zhiqin; Singh, Akhilesh; Yao, Yu; Azad, Abul K.; Mohite, Aditya D.; Taylor, Antoinette J.; Smith, David R.; Chen, Hou-Tong
    During the past decades, major advances have been made in both the generation and detection of infrared light; however, its efficient wavefront manipulation and information processing still encounter great challenges. Efficient and fast optoelectronic modulators and spatial light modulators are required for mid-infrared imaging, sensing, security screening, communication and navigation, to name a few. However, their development remains elusive, and prevailing methods reported so far have suffered from drawbacks that significantly limit their practical applications. In this study, by leveraging graphene and metasurfaces, we demonstrate a high-performance free-space mid-infrared modulator operating at gigahertz speeds, low gate voltage and room temperature. We further pixelate the hybrid graphene metasurface to form a prototype spatial light modulator for high frame rate single-pixel imaging, suggesting orders of magnitude improvement over conventional liquid crystal or micromirror-based spatial light modulators. This work opens up the possibility of exploring wavefront engineering for infrared technologies for which fast temporal and spatial modulations are indispensable.