Abstract
Polarization state is an important characteristic of electromagnetic waves. The arbitrary control of the polarization state of such wave has attracted great interest in the scientific community because of the wide range of modern optical applications that such control can afford. Recent advances in metamaterials provide an alternative method of realizing arbitrary manipulation of polarization state of electromagnetic waves in nanoscale via ultrathin, miniaturized, and easily integrable designs. In this chapter, we give a review of recent developments on polarization state manipulation of electromagnetic waves in metamaterials and discuss their applications in nanophotonics, such as polarization converter, wavefront controller, information coding, and so on.
Keywords
- polarization manipulation
- optical activity
- wave plates
- wavefront controlling
- optical communication
1. Introduction
Harnessing electromagnetic waves for modern nanophotonics applications often involves the control and manipulation of polarization state. The ability to manipulate the polarization state of electromagnetic waves can enable us to control electromagnetic waves for a wide range of applications such as polarization manipulation, wavefront controlling, and optical communication [1–4]. Conventional approaches to manipulate the polarization state of electromagnetic waves employ bulky wave-plates, which are made of birefringent materials composed of crystalline solids and liquid crystals. However, the inherent disadvantages in the size, collimation, and bandwidth of these configurations prevent optical system miniaturization and integration. Thus, realizing polarization state manipulation of electromagnetic waves in nanoscale has become one of the key problems for the development of modern optics and nanophotonics.
Metamaterials are generally composed of subwavelength artificial nanostructures, which can overcome the physical limitations imposed by natural materials and provide exceptional capabilities for manipulating waves with greater precision. Over the past decade, numerous novel optical properties have been demonstrated in this area, such as negative refractive index, super-lenses, cloaking, etc. [5–14]. The soul of metamaterials is the ability to realizing arbitrary manipulation of the electromagnetic waves in multiple parameters (frequency, amplitude, phase, and polarization) with multiple degrees of freedom, which make it possible for people to design devices with optical properties on demand. Recently, metamaterials have been reported to provide a promising pathway toward the realizing of efficient manipulation of polarization state of electromagnetic waves via ultrathin, miniaturized, and easily integrable designs, which open up intriguing possibilities toward the realization of polarization state manipulation of electromagnetic waves in nanoscale and show infinite prospection in nanophotonics applications [4, 5, 15–17].
In this chapter, we will review the development of metamaterials in polarization state manipulation of electromagnetic waves and discuss its applications in nanophotonics, which will provide a guidance for its further designs and applications. The chapter is organized as follows:
In the second section, we begin with a brief introduction of polarization state of electromagnetic waves and give a review of the development process of metamaterials for polarization state manipulation.
In the third section, the fundamental applications of metamaterials in nanophotonics, such as wave plates, polarization converter, opt-isolator, arbitrary generation of vector beam, polarization-based wavefront-control, and so on will be discussed in detail.
In the fourth section, the polarization integrated metamaterials devices, such as tunable polarization controlling devices, photonic spin Hall effect, information coding and optical communication, and polarization-switchable phase holograms, will be discussed in detail.
In the fifth section, we will overlook the whole area of metamaterials-based polarization devices, summarize the main difficulties, possible solutions, and further applications in future.
In the last section, we will give a summary of the chapter.
2. Polarization state manipulation in metamaterials
2.1. Polarization state of electromagnetic waves
The polarization state of electromagnetic waves, which cannot be detected by human eyes, forms an important characteristic of such waves. The polarization state of electromagnetic waves at a fix position is determined by the time course of the electric-field vector
The endpoint of the vector
where
where
2.2. Polarization state manipulation with metamaterials
As indicated above, the polarization state of electromagnetic waves can be described by magnitude ratio
However, the polarization state manipulative ability of initial complanate metamaterials with the above-mentioned structures is limited because of the limited interaction between electromagnetic waves and structures, thus the efficiency and bandwidth are lower than that required for practical applications. Over the past decade, many efforts have been made in the scientific community to overcome the drawbacks of complanate metamaterials and improve the polarization state manipulation of electromagnetic waves in nanoscale with new types of metamaterials [25, 26]. As one of the solutions, sandwich-like metamaterials constructed with anisotropic resonators, dielectric layer, and highly reflective metallic film have been proposed to provide an alternate way to realize effective polarization state manipulation in reflection mode as shown in Figure 2a and b [27, 28]. The near-field interference in this type of designs improves the interaction between electromagnetic waves and metamaterials effectively, thus realizing effective polarization state manipulation of electromagnetic waves in reflection mode. On the other hand, applications in modern nanophotonics always require nanoscale polarization state manipulation in transmission mode. Thus, sandwich-like metamaterials is out of work in this situation. Recently, the proposition of few-layer metamaterials makes it possible to realize effective polarization state manipulation in transmission mode as shown in Figure 2c and d [29, 30]. The interference and near-field coupling between layers in few-layer metamaterials ensure that the energy of electromagnetic waves can be strongly redistributed and can effectively interact with the structures, resulting in polarization state manipulation with high efficiency and broadband in transmission mode. However, the above-mentioned metamaterials are all based on metallic structures, and thus the electromagnetic waves absorption and subsequent heat conversion in sandwich-like and few-layer metamaterials inevitably increase which impeded the applications of metallic structure-based metamaterials for polarization state manipulation of electromagnetic waves. Recently, a different approach has emerged. The Mie resonance in high-index dielectric structures provides a novel way to realize anisotropic optical resonance [31, 32]. Metamaterials based on all-dielectric nanoparticles (as shown in Figure 2e and f) overcome the energy loss of electromagnetic waves in metallic structure-based metamaterials and become an ideal selection for polarization state manipulation of electromagnetic waves.
In summary, metamaterials with the development of it can realize the effective controlling of amplitude and phase of electromagnetic waves in two orthogonal directions, which provide infinite possibilities for arbitrary manipulation of polarization state of electromagnetic waves in nanoscale. Thus, the role of metamaterials for polarization manipulation devices in nanophotonics is no substitute. With the improvement of the relative research, metamaterial-based polarization manipulation devices have been widely proposed in recent years which will be discussed in detail in the next section.
3. Fundamental applications of metamaterials for polarization state manipulation in nanophotonics
As mentioned above, polarization state is one of the intrinsic properties of electromagnetic waves, which can always be resolved into different orthogonal basis, such as
3.1. Conversion of polarization and generation of vector beams
Metamaterials have shown to the world their unique design flexibility, compactness, and highly novel characteristics at its very first birth. Unlike the traditional method, in which polarization is often controlled with polarized molecules (such as liquid crystals) [33], birefringent crystals [18], or magneto-optic phenomenon (Faraday Effect) [34], metamaterials can directly manipulate strength and phase of electromagnetic waves at subwavelength scale. In the eyes of a metamaterials’ researcher, polarization of electromagnetic waves can be modified pixel by pixel (unit cell of the design), thus arbitrarily polarized outputs on Poincare Sphere can be easily achieved [35].
Throughout the recent works, there are two kinds of metamaterials polarization converters that have shown their powerful ability to handle polarization. One is as shown in Figure 3a, which is an enhanced optical rotator of the zero-order transmitted electromagnetic waves through a silver film with an array of perforated
Recently another design almost dominates the area of polarization conversion with metamaterials, as shown in Figure 3(c) to 3(f). This kind of designs simultaneously manipulate the amplitude and phase of electric-magnetic components [35], [38]–[41], resulting in much higher degree of freedom for polarization conversion. In Figure 3(c), the incident linearly polarized (LP) wave can be converted into left-circularly polarized (LCP) and right-circularly polarized (RCP) beams at sub-wavelength scale [38]. The difference of phase retardation between the LCP and RCP beams can be easily modified by varying the geometrical parameters of the nano-apertures, leading to continuously controllable optical activity. It’s worth mentioning that most designs generate orthogonal electric components by the chirality of the materials or nano-structures, however the design in Figure 3(c) experimentally and numerically investigated an alternative approach to realize and control the optical activity with non-chiral plasmonic metasurfaces. The optical rotation was calculated in Figure 3(d), and rotation with arbitrary values from 3° to 42° is obtained, with relatively high-amplitude transmission beyond 40%. Circularly to linearly polarized wave can also be achieved in [39], as shown in Figure 3(e) and 3(f). The inset in Figure 3(f) depicts the artistic rendering of the design. As amplitude ratio varies throughout the working waveband, indicating different orientation of transmitted wave when differing the incident wavelength, this device can hardly called a broadband quarter-wave plate. However, it is still a novel polarization converter, and may be utilized in a metasurface displayer to distinguish different colors. Since this design is a time reversal symmetric system (taking no account of the thermal loss), it can also be applied to convert linearly polarized wave to circularly polarized one.
As mentioned above, the subwavelength characteristics of metamaterials enable people to modify polarization of electromagnetic waves pixel by pixel (unit cell of the design), and to generate wave with different polarization in each cross-section of the outputs. As shown in Figure 4a, a radially polarized beam is generated by appropriately arranging the nano-apertures [14]. Although the six regions are discontinuous with each other, the achieved vector beam is continuous due to the subwavelength characteristics of the structure, which is always a principle of the metamaterials’ design. A far-field intensity profile of the radially polarized beam is shown in Figure 4b. Furthermore, with the in-plane field of SPPs combined, all types of polarization states can be achieved simultaneously [42], as shown in Figure 4c–e. This remarkable consequence results from that the in-plane field of SPPs with proper polarization states and phases can be selectively scattered out to the desired electromagnetic wave beams. This design offers a novel route to achieve the full control of optical polarizations. However, all these devices are plasmonic based and the efficiency is limited by the intrinsic absorption loss. Although many researchers struggled to overcome this limitation by introducing multilayered structures or performing at reflectance mode [24, 27], and so on, it can hardly be solved thoroughly due to the high conductivity of metals. In recent years, high-contrast dielectric designs have been developed to enlarge the working efficiency and practicability of metamaterials [26]. As shown in Figure 4f–h, full control of polarization for beam splitter, lens, and phase hologram is achieved with a simple layer of silicon elliptical nanoposts [35], with an experimentally measured efficiency ranging from 72 to 97%. The complete and simultaneous control over the polarization and phase profiles of electromagnetic waves offered by the proposed platform and the design technique enables the realization of integrated nano-optic devices, which is one of the greatest steps in modern optics and photonics.
3.2. Wave plates accomplished by metamaterials
Although full control of polarization is the primary issue with respect to polarization, wave plates are still worth discussing due to their wide applications in applied optics. Normally wave plates are manufactured from birefringent crystals, which are really successful due to their high efficiency and accuracy. However, simultaneously achieving broadband and wide-angle properties are almost impossible because of the limitation of the crystals’ dispersive properties. In contrast, metamaterials once again provide a promising pathway toward the perfect wave plates with thickness less than a micrometer. As shown in Figure 5a, a broadband half-wave plate is accomplished by a nanorod layer and a metallic reflective ground plane sandwiched by a dielectric layer [28]. An
3.3. Asymmetric transmission
Another application on polarization is asymmetric transmission, which are often utilized in integrated photonic systems for communications and information processing. This unique phenomenon is often achieved by reducing the structural symmetry and converting to different polarization states. The corresponding process can be completely characterized by the 2 × 2 ray-transfer matrix in the paraxial ray-optics approximation. We can write down the
where ‘
Similarly for circularly polarized incidence the
and
where the linearly and circularly polarized matrices are related by
The difference between the
One of the designed metasurfaces with asymmetric transmission is shown in Figure 6a and b, which demonstrates a highly efficient and broadband asymmetric transmission of linearly polarized millimeter waves [45]. The remarkable consequence results from the tri-layer configuration, which can be promoted to other designs of metasurfaces and this will be discussed in detail in Section 5. At optical waveband, asymmetric transmission can also be achieved, as shown in Figure 6c. The fabricated devices designed for operation at central wavelength of 532 and 633 nm, exhibit broadband, efficient asymmetric optical transmission with contrast ratios exceeding 14 dB [46]. The FDTD-simulated amplitude of the magnetic field at an arbitrary time is shown in Figure 6d. It is clear to see that with forward incidence (from Side A to B), the transmitted field displays a profile of diffraction, and with backward incidence (from Side B to A), the transmitted field is blocked. As stated previously, the primary way of achieving asymmetric transmission is by reducing the structural symmetry and converting between polarization states, thus the metasurfaces can actually be more concise, as shown in Figure 6e. The hybrid metasurface consists of an L-shaped metallic layer and a nanorod layer. With
In summary, full control of polarization can now be obtained with metallic or high-contrast dielectric-based metamaterials, the remarkable abilities of which can be attributed to the in-depth subwavelength design of metamaterials. Practical applications, such as vector beams, wave plates, and asymmetric transmission devices, can be accomplished with high efficiency, and other particular designs such as broadband or wide-angle one can also be acquired at will. Other novel applications of polarization integrated devices will be discussed in the next section.
4. Polarization integrated metamaterials devices
As discussed in the previous section, metamaterials has made remarkable development in nanophotonics devices for polarization state manipulation of electromagnetic waves. With the design of individual unit cell of metamaterials instead of the entire structure, metamaterials can not only manipulate the amplitude and phase of the electromagnetic waves but also realize the controlling of the wavefront of electromagnetic waves, thus it provides an ideal way to get the optical devices on demand and shows great impact on nanophotonics. These days, with the ever-increasing demand for integrated optical devices, the research direction is shifting toward achieving tunable, integrated, and novel functionalities.
4.1. Tunable metamaterials devices
Electromagnetic waves controlling in nanophotonics integration always require the devices with the tunability of waveband and functionalities. The polarization state manipulation of electromagnetic waves in earlier metamaterials for different working wavebands is always realized by accurately fabricating different nanostructures, which is an inherent drawback for integration [48, 49]. One way to overcome this drawback is to use tunable metamaterials, which relies on integrating metamaterials with optically active materials such as liquid crystals, semiconductors, phase-change material, and nonlinear media [50–54]. The optical response of these metamaterials can be actively controlled by external stimulus, such as electric field, magnetic field, voltage, or temperature. Among all these techniques, voltage control is one of the simplest ways in practical operations. Graphene is a monolayer of hexagonally arranged carbon atoms that can support the excitation of surface plasmons and its optical response shows a strong dependence on the Fermi energy, which can be dynamically controlled by a gate voltage [55–57]. Therefore, graphene is a promising electrically tunable plasmonic material. The investigation of tunable plasmons in graphene nanostructures has led to the proposition and demonstration of a variety of devices for polarization state manipulation of electromagnetic waves. Figure 3a shows a mid-IR highly tunable optical polarization converter composed of asymmetric graphene nano-crosses [58]. It can convert linearly polarized wave to circularly and elliptically polarized wave or exhibit a giant optical activity at different wavelengths. The transmitted wavelength and polarization states can also be dynamically tuned by varying the Fermi energy of graphene (as shown in Figure 7b and c), without reoptimizing and refabricating the nanostructures. This devices is potentially useful in applications, such as vibrational circular dichroism spectroscopy, ellipsometry, and integration of other optical devices for polarization manipulation, detection, and sensing at the nanoscale. Figure 7d shows a mid-IR highly wavelength-tunable broadband cross-polarization converter based on L-shaped graphene nanostructures [59]. It can convert linearly polarized wave to its cross-polarization in the reflection mode. The polarization conversion can be dynamically tuned and realize a broadband effect by varying the Fermi energy (as shown in Figure 7e and f). This tunable polarizers (or polarization switchers) provide an alternate way for the waveband controlling of polarization state manipulation. A step further, not only the waveband and functionalities of polarization state manipulation can be tuned with graphene-based metamaterials, Figure 7g shows tunable wavefront controlling of cross-polarized electromagnetic waves based on periodically patterned graphene nano-crosses in the infrared regime [60]. With this device, the wavefront of cross-polarized circular refraction waves can be effectively controlled with the polarization conversion induced geometric phase and the working waveband can be dynamically tuned (as shown in Figure 7h and i). This active wavefront controlling device can be treated as polarization and spectral beam splitters at nanoscale.
In general, tunable metamaterial devices (especially graphene-based one) provide an effect way to realize the polarization state manipulation of electromagnetic waves for nanophotonics integration because of the tunability of waveband and functionalities they have.
4.2. Novel applications of polarization integrated metamaterials
As mentioned above, metamaterial-based polarization converter can not only realize the transform of polarization state of electromagnetic waves, but also control the wavefront of the cross-polarized wave by inducing the geometric phase gradient via individual unit cell design. This character makes metamaterial devices become an ideal unit for integrated manipulation of electromagnetic waves, thus providing endless possibilities for novel applications in nanophotonics.
4.2.1. Gain spin-orbit interaction of electromagnetic waves with metamaterial devices
Recently, spin-orbit interaction of electromagnetic waves attracted lots of attention [61]. The spin-orbit interaction of electromagnetic waves are analogous to the spin-orbit interaction of relativistic quantum particles and electrons in solids with a spatial scale of the order of the wavelength of electromagnetic waves, the RCP and LCP polarization states correspond to two spin states of photons. Thus, traditional geometrical optics always neglects the wavelength-scale spin-orbit interaction phenomena. With the development of nanophotonics and plasmonics, spin-orbit interaction phenomena play an important role at the subwavelength scales and bring novel functionalities to optical nanodevices. Photonic spin Hall effect, which manifests itself as the mutual interplay between the photon spin (polarization) and the trajectory (orbital angular momentum) of electromagnetic waves, is one of the basic classes of numerous spin-orbit interactions phenomena at the subwavelength scales. Traditional approaches to realize the photonic spin Hall effect are always associated with the evolution of the propagation direction of electromagnetic waves. However, the photonic spin Hall effect in these approaches are generally very weak, and the induced spin-dependent subwavelength shifts are also exceedingly tiny which prevent them to real applications in nanophotonics. Spin-dependent geometric phase gradient in metamaterials provide an alternative method to realize a gain on spin-orbit interaction at nanoscale [40, 62–64]. Figure 8a–c shows an experimental demonstration of a giant photonic spin Hall effect at a visible wavelength in a dielectric-based metamaterial device with spin-dependent geometric phase gradient [65]. The spin-dependent shift induced by geometric phase gradient is sufficiently large to be observed directly compared with traditional approaches. These kinds of devices bridge the gap between spin-based photonics and nanophotonics and thus provide an opportunity for manipulating the spin and orbital angular momentum of electromagnetic waves.
4.2.2. Information coding and wave coding with metamaterial devices
Modern optical communication always involves the effective device for information coding. Polarization integrated metamaterial devices provide an alternative way to realize the information coding via manipulating and detecting the polarization state of electromagnetic waves. Recently, metamaterial devices with the ability to dynamically tune the polarization state of electromagnetic waves have attracted enormous interest because such devices can be employed for realizing not only the polarization encoding but also polarization-division multiplexing, which is a crucial technique that can significantly increase the transmission capacity of a single physical channel. The traditional technique for realizing polarization-division multiplexing requires a complex optical system and cumbersome volume. Therefore, a metamaterial-based polarization modulator offers a new approach for simplifying the optical process and miniaturizing the required volume. Figure 9a shows a metamaterial device by integrating a single layer of graphene with an anisotropic metamaterial, which can dynamically modulate the polarization state of electromagnetic waves with a wide tunable range in mid-infrared wavelengths [66]. By switching gate voltage applied on the graphene among three different values, the incident LP wave can be dynamically converted into LCP, RCP, or linearly cross-polarized one in the reflection direction, as shown in Figure 9b–f. Based on these polarization-control characteristics, the proposed device can realize polarization encoding and the polarization-division multiplexing technique, as shown in Figure 9g. This design profoundly affects a wide range of modern optical communication devices, fulfills the demand of faster information transfer and processing, and opens a route to on-chip integration of metasurfaces with electronics.
Another approach named “coding metamaterial” has also been paid great attention by the scientific community, which is composed of several types of unit cells, with different constant phase responses, respectively [67–70]. Figure 9h shows a 1-bit coding metamaterial, composed of two types of unit cells, with 0 and
4.2.3. Polarization-switchable phase holograms with metamaterial devices
One of the prime goals for metamaterial research is realizing the manipulation of refractive index via using the concept of effective index and designing structures at the subwavelength scale. Metamaterials composed of subwavelength structures allow for the use of effective medium approach to describe their electromagnetic waves response in phase and amplitude sensitive to both shape and orientation of the structures. With this character, holograms which manifest itself as reconstructing predesigned images have been advanced dramatically by using metamaterial devices [71–77]. These days, polarization-switchable holograms that can separate the readout electromagnetic waves by its polarization to reconstruct different holographic images, lead to various applications such as image processing and multilevel optical switching. Figure 10a shows a plasmonic meta-hologram using metamaterial devices [75]. The meta-hologram sample consists of pixels made of 6 × 6 cross-nanoantennas of 16 different shapes for the phase modulation that yields polarization-controlled dual images. Figure 10b shows the demonstration of arbitrary polarization selective beam shaping with a dielectric metamaterial device [76]. Taking advantage of the conjugate phase modulation obtained by illuminating the device with LCP and RCP, two independent images, for the two orthogonal polarization states has been demonstrated. And Figure 10c–e show an experimental demonstration of helicity multiplexed metasurface hologram capable of achieving high efficiency and high image quality in the visible and near-infrared range [77]. Unlike previously demonstrated polarization multiplexed holograms that are sensitive to linear polarization, two off-axis images are interchangeable in one identical hologram by controlling the helicity of the incident wave in this work. These devices show endless possibilities for the development of holograms and provide an effective way for data storage and information processing.
5. Challenge in future
In previous sections, we overlooked the whole area of metamaterial-based polarization converter, and undoubtedly the achievements made by the researchers are remarkable: full control of polarization now can be accomplished with a single subwavelength film. However, there are still some challenges that stand in front of our path to the full control of electromagnetic waves. For example, how can we in depth manipulate polarization, phase, and amplitude of the incidence independently? How can we integrate different functional designs together, which are compatible with existing photonic devices on chip, such as silicon-based complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) photonics platform? How can we get tremendously active or tunable devices without refabricating the metamaterials? How can we achieve ultrashort response with metamaterials to obtain ultrafast detect?
One way to solving these problems may be utilizing few-layer metasurfaces [25], the principle of which is illustrated in Figure 11a. The properties of metasurfaces are sum of the individual particles (unit cells), which also means their functionalities are limited by each of the particles. For example, electric-magnetic dipoles supported by metallic nanoantennas and Mie-scattering by dielectric particles are often insufficient for independently manipulating each degree of freedom in electromagnetic waves, since each degree tends to mix up at the resonant frequency. However, other effects occur when adding another layer or layers upon the metasurfaces, such as interference [78], near-field coupling [79], waveguide effects [80], and so on, which may take advantage of each layer and even far better properties can be achieved with suitable designs. Compared with bulk metamaterials, few-layer metasurfaces are much more sufficient with easier fabrication, which are highly crucial for practical utilization. Figure 11b shows a transmitted cross-polarization converter consisting of two orthogonally positioned gratings and a low-efficiency polarization converter in the middle [81]. A Fabry-Pérot resonance occurs within the ultrathin polarization rotator, which can enhance the polarization conversion efficiency tremendously. The experimental and numerical results are shown in Figure 11c, which can be further optimized according to the authors. Few-layer metasurfaces can also be utilized as correcting layers [82]. As shown in Figure 11d, single-layer metasurfaces can easily obtain foci with hyperbolic phase distribution. However, aberration happens with oblique incidence, which is harmful as a camera lens. This problem can be solved by adding another correcting metasurface, and the incident angle can be increased to 30°, as shown in Figure 11d. Another really promising consequence achieved by few-layer metasurfaces is mathematical operation. As shown in Figure 11e, Silva et al. demonstrated a method to carry out complex mathematical operations in the Fourier domain [83]. The operation can be divided to three parts: the first and last parts involve Fourier and inverse Fourier transforms, which are realized by a graded-index (GRIN) dielectric index. Actual operations are performed by carefully designing the metasurface in the second part. If the permeability and permittivity of the metasurfaces conform with a certain relationship, differentiation, integration, and convolution can be precisely calculated. This technique requires total manipulation of the wavefront of incident electromagnetic wave with no reflection and normal wave, and this can only be realized by few-layer metasurfaces.
6. Summary
In this chapter, we have reviewed the recent progress in the field of polarization state manipulation of electromagnetic waves with metamaterials and discussed its wide applications in nanophotonics. Polarization state is one of the most important characteristics for electromagnetic waves, therefore arbitrary manipulation of polarization state with meta-materials provides endless possibilities for direct manipulation of electromagnetic waves and offers a powerful way for design of novel devices. With in-depth subwavelength designs, full control of polarization can now be obtained with metallic or high-contrast dielectric-based meta-materials. Furthermore, few-layer metasurfaces may provide more degree of freedom to manipulate electromagnetic waves without decrease of efficiency or increase of fabricating complexity compared to bulk metamaterials or traditional metasurfaces. With the development of metamaterial fabrication technology, meta-material devices for polarization state manipulation of electromagnetic waves are expected to have deep impact on real applications in our life.
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