C-Band Linear Polarization Metasurface Converter with Arbitrary Polarization Rotation Angle Based on Notched Circular Patches

Abstract

This paper presents a linear polarization metasurface converter with arbitrary polarization rotating angle and stable oblique incident response, which is based on the concept of linear-to-circular polarization decomposition and recombination. A metasurface unit cell is proposed using a notched circular patch with two metallized vias connected to the bottom-layer coplanar waveguide (CPW) transmission lines. By changing the length of the two transmission lines, different polarization rotation angle may be realized. The proposed metasurface polarization converter is theoretically analyzed and full-wave simulated. A 45∘ metasurface polarization converter with 8×8 unit cells is designed and experimentally demonstrated. The experimental results agree well with the simulation, showing that the proposed metasurface polarization converter can achieve a high polarization conversion ratio (PCR) larger than 85% under up to 50∘ oblique incident wave.

Keywords

• metasurface
• polarization converter
• linear polarization
• circular polarization
• notched circular patch