Dual-band vortex beam generation with different OAM modes using single-layer metasurface.

Abstract

Recently, considerable attention has been focused on orbital angular momentum (OAM) vortex wave, owing to its prospect of increasing communication capacity. Here, a single-layer metasurface is proposed to realize vortex beams with different OAM modes and polarizations carried at two distinctive bands. Both the resonant and geometric (Pancharatnam-Berry) phase cells are adopted to construct this metasurface for generating the desired phase profile, and each type of phase modulation cell can independently control the vortex beam at different frequencies. When a linearly-polarized wave is incident onto our metasurface, the resonant phase cells with spiral phase distribution can achieve OAM beam with topological charge of + 1 at 5.2 GHz. And under illumination of left-handed circular polarized (LHCP) wave, the rotated geometric phase cells assist the metasurface to generate the deflected OAM beam with topological charge of + 2 at 10.5~12 GHz. Both simulated and experimental results demonstrate good performance of the proposed single-layer metasurface at the above two frequency bands.