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Terahertz phase modulator

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Electrically tunable metamaterials make it possible to create the first solid-state phase modulator operating at terahertz frequencies.

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Figure 1: Diagram of the proposed metamaterial modulator.

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  1. Carsten Rockstuhl is at the Institute of Condensed Matter Theory and Solid State Optics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena 07743, Germany. carsten.rockstuhl@uni.jena.de,

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  2. Weili Zhang is at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, USA. weili.zhang@okstate.edu,

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Rockstuhl, C., Zhang, W. Terahertz phase modulator. Nature Photon 3, 130–131 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.14

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