Wideband linear-to-circular polarization conversion realized by a transmissive anisotropic metasurface

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/27/5/054204

Abstract We propose a metasurface which consists of three conductive layers separated by two dielectric layers. Each conductive layer consists of a square array of square loop apertures, however, a pair of corners of each square metal patch surrounded by the square loop apertures have been truncated, so it becomes an orthotropic structure with a pair of mutually perpendicular symmetric axes u and v. The simulated results show that the metasurface can be used as a wideband transmission-type polarization converter to realize linear-to-circular polarization conversion in the frequency range from 12.21 GHz to 18.39 GHz, which is corresponding to a 40.4% fractional bandwidth. Moreover, its transmission coefficients at x-and y-polarized incidences are completely equal. We have analyzed the cause of the polarization conversion, and derived several formulas which can be used to calculate the magnitudes of cross-and co-polarization transmission coefficients at y-polarized incidence, together with the phase difference between them, based on the two independent transmission coefficients at u-and v-polarized incidences. Finally, one experiment was carried out, and the experiment and simulated results are in good agreement with each other.

Keywords: polarization converter metasurface circular polarization

Received: 26 November 2017
Revised: 22 January 2018
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PACS:	42.25.Ja	(Polarization)
	42.79.Fm	(Reflectors, beam splitters, and deflectors)
	78.20.Ci	(Optical constants (including refractive index, complex dielectric constant, absorption, reflection and transmission coefficients, emissivity))

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.61471387) and the Research Center for Internet of Things and Big Data Technology of Xijing University,China.

Corresponding Authors: Bao-Qin Lin
E-mail: afdaxy@sina.cn

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Bao-Qin Lin(林宝勤), Jian-Xin Guo(郭建新), Bai-Gang Huang(黄百钢), Lin-Bo Fang(方林波), Peng Chu(储鹏), Xiang-Wen Liu(刘湘雯) Wideband linear-to-circular polarization conversion realized by a transmissive anisotropic metasurface 2018 Chin. Phys. B 27 054204

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