基于Pancharatnam-Berry相位原理,设计了一种宽带圆极化反射聚焦超表面并将其应用到提高天线增益中.首先提出了一种变形十字超表面单元,在11—16 GHz频带范围内能够实现高效同极化转换,并基于该单元构建了宽带反射聚焦超表面.仿真结果表明,垂直入射的右旋圆极化平面波宽带聚焦效果明显.然后利用单向阿基米德螺旋天线对超表面进行照射,其辐射的球面波经超表面反射后得到了近平面波,有效地提高了天线的增益.最终对所设计的天线系统进行加工并测试,结果表明系统的-1 d B增益带宽达到25%(12.5—16 GHz),在该频带范围内峰值增益均高于19 d Bc且轴比小于3 d B.此外,在12—15.5 GHz范围内天线口径效率均超过50%.
We report a polarization beam splitter based on phase gradient metasurface for microwave frequency region.The metasurface is constructed by anisotropic cells with independent phase response for differently-polarized waves.Through putting different gradient phases for orthogonally-polarized waves on a focusing metasurface,the anisotropic sample has the ability to enhance gain and split orthogonally-polarized waves.The simulation results indicate that the incident spherical waves are converted into plane waves and split into an x-polarized wave with a refraction angle of-24° and a ypolarized wave with a refraction angle of 37.6° in the y direction.For verification,a metasurface sample with a size of 102.5 mm x 102.5 mm is fabricated and measured.The consistence between numerical and experimental results validates the improved gain of 10.5-dB against the feed source and the splitting effect.Moreover,the thickness of the proposed metasurface is 3 mm which is ultra-thin against the wavelength at 15 GHz.The proposed prescription opens a new route to the applications of anisotropic metasurface in microwave band.
