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A high-efficiency and broadband reflective 90° linear polarization rotator based on anisotropic metamaterial

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In this paper, a high-efficiency and broadband reflective linear polarization rotator based on anisotropic metamaterial is proposed, which is verified by simulation and experiment. Simulated results indicate that our design can achieve 90° polarization rotation from 5.7 to 10.3 GHz with the relative bandwidth of 57.5 %, which is agreement well with experiment. The further simulated results indicate that our design can achieve linear polarization conversion or rotation by 90° under oblique incident angles with large range for both transverse electric and transverse magnetic waves. Finally, the amplitude and phase of reflective coefficients with different polarization, and surface current distribution of the unit cell structure are simulated to explain the physics mechanism of the high-efficiency and broadband polarization rotation. Our design will provide an important reference for the practical applications of the metamaterial in polarization manipulation.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant No. 61605147) and the Youth science and technology backbone cultivation plan project of the Wuhan University of Science and Technology (Grant No. 2016xz010).

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    Jingcheng Zhao

  2. School of Information Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430081, Hubei, China

    Yongzhi Cheng

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Zhao, J., Cheng, Y. A high-efficiency and broadband reflective 90° linear polarization rotator based on anisotropic metamaterial. Appl. Phys. B 122, 255 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-016-6533-6

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