A Novel Multi-Functional Electronically Tuned Polarization Converter Based on Reconfigurable Reflective Metasurface

Authors

  • Jiaqi Han Key Laboratory of High Speed Circuit Design and EMC of Ministry of Education School of Electronic Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Information Sensing and Understanding Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China
  • Guangyao Liu Key Laboratory of High Speed Circuit Design and EMC of Ministry of Education School of Electronic Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Information Sensing and Understanding Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China
  • Yajie Mu Key Laboratory of High Speed Circuit Design and EMC of Ministry of Education School of Electronic Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Information Sensing and Understanding Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China
  • Haixia Liu Key Laboratory of High Speed Circuit Design and EMC of Ministry of Education School of Electronic Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Information Sensing and Understanding Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China
  • Long Li Key Laboratory of High Speed Circuit Design and EMC of Ministry of Education School of Electronic Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Information Sensing and Understanding Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China

Keywords:

Axial ratio, multi-functional polarizer, reconfigurable metasurface, varactor

Abstract

In this paper, a novel multi-functional electronically tuned polarization converter based on reconfigurable reflective metasurface is proposed. The proposed polarizer can convert linearly polarized waves to left-hand circular polarization, right-hand circular polarization and crossed linear polarization waves without changing the polarization of incident waves. By controlling the varactors that mounted on the metasurface element, the reflection phase difference of the two orthogonal components of the incident linear polarization waves covers from -110° to 210° when the polarizer operates from 4.65 GHz to 5.35 GHz. Moreover, a 14 × 14 prototype is fabricated and measured to validate the proposed polarizer. Measured axial ratios agree well with the simulation results.

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Published

2019-07-01

How to Cite

[1]
Jiaqi Han, Guangyao Liu, Yajie Mu, Haixia Liu, and Long Li, “A Novel Multi-Functional Electronically Tuned Polarization Converter Based on Reconfigurable Reflective Metasurface”, ACES Journal, vol. 34, no. 07, pp. 1064–1069, Jul. 2019.

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2019: Vol 34 Iss 7

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