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A varactor-based tunable bandstop filter has been proposed in this article. The proposed filter is based on a dualmode circuit developed by introducing inductive and capacitive couplings into a notch filter. The frequency tunability is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-11 Amir Ebrahimi , Thomas Baum , James Scott , Kamran Ghorbani

Polarization engineering has been proven to enhance the capabilities of light manipulation and thus facilitate the development of integrated photonic devices. In this study, we introduce a polarization rotator based on gradiently-twisted…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-05 Songyan Hou , Hao Hu , Zhihong Liu , Weichuan Xing , Jincheng Zhang

We propose a polarization modulation scheme of electromagnetic (EM) waves through reflection of a tunable metamaterial reflector/absorber. By constructing the metamaterial with resonant unit cells coupled by diodes, we demonstrate that the…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-20 Bo Zhu , Yijun Feng Junming Zhao , Ci Huang , Zhengbin Wang , Tian Jiang

Beam splitters are pivotal components in integrated microwave and photonic systems. However, conventional designs based on directional coupling or multi-mode interference often suffer from back scattering, frequency-dependent splitting…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-10 Lujun Hong , Chao Liu , Jun Wu , Chaojian He , Kai Yuan , Xiaohua Deng , Song Yang , Zhen Gao

Traditional approaches to realize microwave tunability in microwire polymer composites which mainly rely on topological factors, magnetic field/stress stimuli, and hybridization prove to be burdensome and restricted to rather narrow band…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-27 A. Uddin , F. X. Qin , D. Estevez , S. D. Jiang , S. A. Jawed , L. V. Panina , H. X. Peng

Radio-frequency reflectometry of nanodevices requires careful separation of signal quadratures to distinguish dissipative and dispersive contributions to the device impedance. A tunable phase shifter for this purpose is described and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-12-16 G. Yin , G. A. D. Briggs , E. A. Laird

We show that a temporal soliton can induce resonant radiation by three-wave mixing nonlinearities. This constitutes a new class of resonant radiation whose spectral positions are parametrically tunable. The experimental verification is done…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-12 B. Zhou , X. Liu , H. R. Guo , X. L. Zeng , X. F. Chen , H. P. Chung , Y. H. Chen , M. Bache

We propose a new device to create a tunable all-electric spin polarizer: a quantum point contact (QPC) with four gates -- two in-plane side gates in series. The first pair of gates, near the source, is asymmetrically biased to create spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Charles , N. Bhandari , J. Wan , M. Cahay , R. S. Newrock

Polarization modulation is a powerful technique to increase the stability of measurements by enabling the distinction of a polarized signal from dominant slow system drifts and unpolarized foregrounds. Furthermore, when placed as close to…

Tunable bandpass terahertz filters are demanded in various key applications such as hyperspectral imagers, miniaturized spectrometers, and high-speed wireless communication systems. Here, a mechanically reconfigurable double-layered…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-20 Sanaz Zarei

In this letter, a dual port antenna with polarization adjustability is proposed. The loading effect of four ring slots stimulates a hybrid mode in the antenna that generates eight magnetic monopoles with high gain in boresight. Due to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-04 Peyman Aghabeyki , Masoud Hamidi , Gholamreza Moradi , Pedram Mousavi

A device performing both the polarization-alignment and the wavelength selection is demonstrated by fabricated device. Waveguides incorporating Bragg gratings for polarization rotation and mode conversion having different widths are placed…

In this article, a compact wideband circularly polarized antenna based on a miniaturized phase shifter with ultra-wideband operation is proposed. The proposed antenna is comprised of a pair of compact orthogonal ultra-wideband Vivaldi…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-21 Han-Jie Xu , Shi-Wei Qu

A new type of integrated polarizer based on bent coupled optical waveguides is proposed. The simplicity of the device geometry permits its realization using only basic standard fabrication steps. A deep etched waveguide silicon nitride…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 P. Chamorro-Posada

A multi-element interdigitated photoconductive emitter for broadband THz polarization rotation is proposed and experimentally verified. The device consists of separate pixels for the emission of horizontally and vertically polarized THz…

We implement a broadly tunable phase shifter for microwaves based on superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) and study it both experimentally and theoretically. At different frequencies, a unit transmission coefficient,…

We theoretically study the transmission properties of a stack of metallic metamaterials and show that is able to achieve a perfect transmission selectively exhibiting broadband ($Q<10$) or extremely narrowband ($Q>10^5$) polarization…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Xavier Romain , Fadi Baida , Philippe Boyer

Phase modulation plays a crucial role in various terahertz applications, including biomedical imaging, high-rate communication, and radar detection. Existing terahertz phase shifters typically rely on tuning the resonant effect of…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-19 Xudong Liu , Daosong Yu , Chuanfu Sun , Zhijie Mei , Hao Chen , Jianbin Xu , Yiwen Sun

Flexible manipulation of terahertz-wave polarization during the generation process is very important for terahertz applications, especially for the next-generation on-chip functional terahertz sources. However, current terahertz emitters…

We realize a device allowing for tunable and switchable coupling between two superconducting resonators mediated by an artificial atom. For the latter, we utilize a persistent current flux qubit. We characterize the tunable and switchable…