Chiral plasmons enable coherent vortex Smith–Purcell radiation

ZW Zhang, JF Zhu, CH Du, F Gao… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in vortex Smith–Purcell radiation (V‐SPR) have spurred many
breakthroughs in the generation of vortex beams for their potential applications in chiral …

Designer surface plasmons enable terahertz Cherenkov radiation

J Zhang, X Hu, H Chen, F Gao - Progress In Electromagnetics Research, 2020 - jpier.org
Cherenkov radiation (CR) is a promising method to generate high-power terahertz (THz)
electromagnetic (EM) waves, which are highly desired in numerous practical applications …

Plasmonic Radiation from Spin‐Momentum Locking

YL Lei, JF Zhu, ZW Zhang, JT Yang, F Zhang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Chiral light emission plays a key role in sensing, tomography, quantum communication,
among others. Whereas, achieving highly pure, tunable chirality emission across a broad …

Generation of Airy beams in Smith–Purcell radiation

L **g, D Liao, J Tao, H Chen, Z Wang - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The metasurface has recently emerged as a powerful platform to engineer wave packets of
free electron radiation at the mesoscale. Here, we propose that Airy beams can be …

A wideband OAM antenna based on chiral harmonic diffraction

JF Zhu, CH Du, EI Wei, ZW Zhang… - IEEE Antennas and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An orbital angular momentum (OAM) antenna based on chiral harmonic diffraction of spoof
surface plasmon polaritons (SSPP) is demonstrated in this letter. Due to the diffraction of the …

Generating a multi-mode vortex beam based on spoof surface plasmon polaritons

JF Zhu, CH Du, ZW Zhang, FH Li - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The vortex beam provides a promising alternative for next-generation wireless
communication, but it is a long-standing challenge to generate a multi-mode and robust …

High-efficiency directional excitation of spoof surface plasmon under arbitrary illumination

LZ Yin, FY Han, J Zhao, YD Wang… - IEEE Antennas and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in spoof surface plasmon (SSP) have offered enormous opportunities for
engineering electromagnetic waves at the subwavelength scale. However, the fundamental …

The study of channeled vacuum GaAs photocathodes for enhanced electron emission properties

W Sha, J Zhang, L Li, Y Cai, Y Wang, G Hao - Micro and Nanostructures, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we design and analyze the channeled vacuum photocathodes with novel
structures towards low operating temperature, high current density, and miniaturized …

Transmission grating couples and enhances the second harmonic of the electron beam to generate tunable high-power terahertz radiation

S Chang, Z Wu, D Liu, R Zhong, Z Duan, Y Wei… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Vacuum electronic devices utilizing free-electron-based mechanisms are a crucial class of
terahertz radiation sources that operate by modulating electron beams. In this study, we …

Characteristics of FEL-generated THz waves using linear and helical undulators

AA Choobini, SS Ghaffari-Oskooei, F Farahi… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Emission of terahertz waves in free electron lasers (FELs) with both linear and helical
undulators has been explored. The analysis employs Lienard-Wiechert fields to characterize …