Design and Experimental Demonstration of Impedance-Matched Circular-Polarization-Selective Surfaces with Spin-Selective Phase Modulations

Abstract

We present the design and experimental demonstration of an impedance-matched circular-polarization-selective surface that also offers spin-selective phase modulations at microwave frequencies. We achieve this by leveraging the theory of Pancharatnam-Berry phase shift and cascading four tensor impedance layers, each comprising an array of crossed meander lines. These meander lines are precisely tuned and rotated to implement particular tensor surface impedance values to satisfy the impedance-matching condition for the transmitted right-handed circularly polarized field while inducing Pancharatnam-Berry phase shift for only the reflected left-handed circularly polarized field. We present a detailed numerical synthesis technique to obtain the required impedance values to satisfy the impedance-matching condition, and demonstrate spin-selective phase modulations based on Pancharatnam-Berry phase shifts. To verify the proposed idea, we experimentally demonstrate nearly reflectionless transmission of right-handed circular polarization at broadside and reflection of left-handed circular polarization at ${33}^{\ensuremath{\circ}}$ off broadside at 12 GHz. For this purpose, a free-space quasioptical setup and a near-field measurement system are used to measure the transmitted and reflected circularly polarized fields, respectively.