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Design of a wideband transmissive linear-to-circular polarization converter based on a metasurface

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A wideband transmissive linear-to-circular polarization converter based on an anisotropic metasurface is proposed, which consists of three layers of conductive pattern layers separated by two dielectric layers, each conductive pattern layer consists of a square array of elliptical loop apertures. For the long axis of each loop aperture is tilted 45° from the vertical direction, and it is an orthogonal anisotropic structure with a pair of mutually perpendicular symmetric axes u and v along ± 45° directions with respect to y axis direction. Numerical simulation results show that the polarization converter can realize linear-to-circular polarization conversion at x and y polarized incidences in the frequency range from 10.73 to 16.13 GHz with a relative bandwidth of 40.2%. A detailed analysis for the polarization conversion was presented, and an effective formula was deduced, which can be used to calculate the cross- and co-polarization transmission coefficients at x and y polarized incidences according to the two transmission coefficients at u and v polarized incidences. Finally, one experiment was carried out, and a good agreement was observed between measured and simulated results.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 61471387), Key Research and Development Plan Project of Shaanxi Provincial Science & Technology Department (Program no. 2018ZDXM-NY-014), the research center for internet of things and big data technology of Xijing University.

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    Baoqin Lin, Jianxin Guo, Yahong Ma, Wensheng Wu, Xiangyang Duan, Zhen Wang & Yang Li

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Lin, B., Guo, J., Ma, Y. et al. Design of a wideband transmissive linear-to-circular polarization converter based on a metasurface. Appl. Phys. A 124, 715 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-018-2135-y

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