Frontiers in Materials (Mar 2022)

Broadband Polarization Manipulation Based on W-Shaped Metasurface

  • Guangyuan Xu,
  • Lei Gao,
  • Yongqiang Chen,
  • Yaqiong Ding,
  • Jun Wang,
  • Yu Fang,
  • Xingzhi Wu,
  • Yong Sun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmats.2022.850020
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9

Abstract

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We present a metasurface consisting of W-shaped resonators to realize broadband reflective linear and circular polarization conversions. We find that the cross polarization conversion ratio for normal incidence is over 0.95 from 9.2 to 18.7 GHz, covering 68.1% of the central frequency. We also show that, the conversion performance is almost insensitive to the angle of incident waves. Furthermore, by simply adjusting the geometrical parameters of the W-shaped metasurface, the broadband circular polarization conversion is also achieved. We emphasize that the bandwidth of axis ratio less than 3.0 dB covers from 10.1 to 17.7 GHz, equivalent to 54.7% relative bandwidth. Due to these broadband and high-efficiency polarization conversion features, our proposal may have a wide application prospect.

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