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Chin. Phys. B, 2021, Vol. 30(8): 084101    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/abe37c
ELECTROMAGNETISM, OPTICS, ACOUSTICS, HEAT TRANSFER, CLASSICAL MECHANICS, AND FLUID DYNAMICS Prev   Next  

Shared aperture metasurface antenna for electromagnetic vortices generation with different topological charges

He Wang(王贺), Yong-Feng Li(李勇峰), and Shao-Bo Qu(屈绍波)
Department of Basic Sciences, Air Force Engineering University, Xi'an 710051, China
Abstract  Vortex beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have aroused great interest of both scientific and engineering communities. Encouragingly, generating OAM with different topological charges in a shared aperture is regarded as a potential route to expanding the communication capacity, which yet is an academic challenging task. In this work, a paradigm of designing metasurface-based shared aperture antenna for generating polarization-dependent vortex beams with distinct topological charges is proposed. Anisotropic unit cells that can tailor different resonance phase profiles in two orthogonal orientations are used to assemble a metasurface reflector. As a proof-of-concept, a planar reflector antenna is designed with two Vivaldi sources, which can generate x- and y-polarized vortex beams with topological charges of l=-1 and l=-2, respectively. Both the simulation results and the measurement results are in good agreement, which demonstrates the feasibility of our design. Significantly, this work provides a new route to achieving vortex beams carrying different topological charges in the same frequency band, which may have potential applications in communication systems.
Keywords:  metasurface      electromagnetic vortex      antenna      orbital angular momentum  
Received:  07 January 2021      Revised:  18 January 2021      Accepted manuscript online:  05 February 2021
PACS:  41.20.-q (Applied classical electromagnetism)  
  41.20.Jb (Electromagnetic wave propagation; radiowave propagation)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science foundation of China (Grant No. 61971347).
Corresponding Authors:  He Wang     E-mail:  18066540235@163.com

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He Wang(王贺), Yong-Feng Li(李勇峰), and Shao-Bo Qu(屈绍波) Shared aperture metasurface antenna for electromagnetic vortices generation with different topological charges 2021 Chin. Phys. B 30 084101

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