Design of metasurface beam splitter based on polarization characteristics of incident wave

Abstract

A transmissive metasurface polarization beam splitter (MPBS) with three-layer dielectric substrate was designed to meet the application requirements of polarization beam splitting devices. The microstructure unit cell was composed of an elliptical patch and a square resonant ring, and the phase and amplitude responses to the x- and y-polarized incident waves were independent. Here 16 transmissive unit cells designed with a 90° phase difference and more than 0.8 transmission coefficient could be used to realize different functions by pre-designing distribution of “00”, “01”, “10”, “11” encoding particles in x- and y-direction. We experimentally demonstrated a 2-bit encoding MPBS that separated x- and y-polarization incident waves into two different directions at 15 GHz respectively using specially designed encoding unit cells. The work may alleviate the shortage of advanced multifunctional devices and provide important application prospect in imaging, MIMO system, etc.

KEYWORDS:

• Beam splitter
• encoding metasurfaces
• transmission mode
• polarization characteristics

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing, China: [Grant Number cstc2018jcyjAX0508]; Research Program of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission: [Grant Number KJQN201800639].