Tunable lateral shift in a prism-waveguide system with biaxially anisotropic metamaterial

We construct a prism-waveguide system with electro-optical (EO) crystal and biaxially anisotropic metamaterial (BAM) as the prism and guiding layer, respectively. Stationary-phase approach is employed to explore the modulation of EO material on the phase, reflectivity and lateral shift, different thicknesses of air and BAM are also considered. Simulation results show that the refractive index change of EO material does not change the maximum value of lateral shift and a configuration with larger phase maximum value, smaller reflectivity minimum and sharper angle-reflectivity curve generates a larger value of absolute value of lateral shift. These results give us a guidance for the design of EO-modulated sensors based on tunable lateral shift.