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Active metasurfaces designed to operate at optical frequencies are a new class of flat optical elements that can dynamically control the wavefront of the reflected or transmitted light at a subwavelength scale. Here, we estimate the feasibility of using gate-tunable conducting oxide metasurfaces as electrically steerable apertures for free space optical communications. Our optical link budget analysis shows that for pulse energies of 1 mJ, free space optical communication at distances of 100000 km is possible. We further elaborate our analysis by adopting a system design approach and refining our optical link budget analysis.
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Ruzan Sokhoyan, Meir Y. Grajower, Eyal Feigenbaum, Selim Elhadj, Harry A. Atwater, "Electrically controlled active metasurfaces for free space optical communications," Proc. SPIE 11796, Active Photonic Platforms XIII, 1179628 (4 August 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594984