On-demand Doppler-offset beamforming with intelligent spatiotemporal metasurfaces

Abstract

Recently, significant efforts have been devoted to guaranteeing high-quality communication services in fast-moving scenes, such as high-speed trains. The challenges lie in the Doppler effect that shifts the frequency of the transmitted signal. To this end, the recent emergence of spatiotemporal metasurfaces offers a promising solution, which can manipulate electromagnetic waves in time and space domain while being lightweight and cost-effective. Here we introduce deep learning-assisted spatiotemporal metasurfaces to automatically and adaptively neutralize Doppler effect in fast-moving situations. A tandem neural network is used to establish a rapid connection between on-site targets and time-varying series of spatiotemporal metasurfaces, endowing the capability of on-demand beamforming with Doppler effects offset. Moreover, oblique incidence problems are also studied in practice, which can be used for relieving multipath effect. In the microwave experiment, we fabricate the intelligent spatiotemporal metasurfaces and demonstrate the potential to fulfill Doppler-offset beamforming under oblique incidence.