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Transmission Magnitude and Phase Control for Polarization-Preserving Reflectionless Metasurfaces

Do-Hoon Kwon1,*, Grigorii Ptitcyn2, Ana Díaz-Rubio2, and Sergei A. Tretyakov2

  • 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
  • 2Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto University, P.O. Box 15500, 00076 Aalto, Finland

  • *dhkwon@umass.edu
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Phys. Rev. Applied 9, 034005 – Published 6 March, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.9.034005

Abstract

For transmissive applications of electromagnetic metasurfaces, an array of subwavelength Huygens’ meta-atoms are typically used to eliminate reflection and achieve a high-transmission power efficiency together with a wide transmission phase coverage. We show that the underlying principle of low reflection and full control over transmission is asymmetric scattering into the specular reflection and transmission directions that results from a superposition of symmetric and antisymmetric scattering components, with Huygens’ meta-atoms being one example configuration. Available for oblique illumination in TM polarization, a meta-atom configuration comprising normal and tangential electric polarizations is presented, which is capable of reflectionless, full-power transmission and a 2π transmission phase coverage as well as full absorption. For lossy metasurfaces, we show that a complete phase coverage is still available for reflectionless designs for any value of absorptance. Numerical examples in the microwave and optical regimes are provided.

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Phys. Rev. Applied 9, 034005– Published 6 March, 2018
  • Received 10 October 2017
  • Revised 19 December 2017
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