New Functional Capabilities of Microwave Interferometry When Using Metastructure as a Tunable Beam Splitter

Abstract

It is experimentally shown that the microwave metainterferometer with a metastructure (metasurface or metaatom) as a tunable beam splitter possesses the unique possibility to specify selective magnetic and electric tuning of multiband filtration of electromagnetic waves. The investigation results are shown concerning the interferogram of a modified metainterferometer based upon the waveguide tee junctions in which the metastructure contains a ferrite plate or a structure made of conducting resonant elements compatible with the controlling elements or their combination with ferrite. The dependences of the shape, width, intensity, and frequency of the interference band on the value and sign of a magnetostatic field, on the relative position of ferromagnetic resonance and the band, and on the electric voltage on the varactors included in the discontinuities of elements. We have experimental results that open new methods and approaches in the design of switchable and tunable multiband microwave filters needed in multifunctional multichannel telecommunication systems.