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Quasi-Continuous Metasurfaces for Orbital Angular Momentum Generation

Chen, MLN; Jiang, LJ; Sha, WEI; (2019) Quasi-Continuous Metasurfaces for Orbital Angular Momentum Generation. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters , 18 (3) pp. 477-481. 10.1109/LAWP.2019.2894772. Green open access

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Abstract

A quasi-continuous composite perfect electric conductor-perfect magnetic conductor metasurface and a systematic metasurface design process are proposed for the orbital angular momentum (OAM) generation. The metasurfaces reflect the incident left circularly polarized (LCP)/right circularly polarized (RCP) plane wave to RCP/LCP vortex beams carrying OAM at normal or oblique direction. Unlike conventional metasurfaces that are composed of discrete scatterers, the scatterers on the proposed metasurface form a quasi-continuous pattern. The patterning of the metasurface is calculated through grating vectors, and no optimization of single scatterer is required. Furthermore, the distortions from local-response discontinuity of discrete scatterers are avoided. This letter provides great convenience to high-quality OAM generation.

Type: Article
Title: Quasi-Continuous Metasurfaces for Orbital Angular Momentum Generation
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2019.2894772
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2019.2894772
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Metals, Gratings, Strips, Impedance, Surface impedance, Cutoff frequency, Orbits
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10076917
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