Functional metasurfaces: Do we need normal polarizations?
Abstract
We consider reciprocal metasurfaces with engineered reflection and transmission coefficients and study the role of normal (with respect to the metasurface plane) electric and magnetic polarizations on the possibilities to shape the reflection and transmission responses. We demonstrate in general and on a representative example that the presence of normal components of the polarization vectors does not add extra degrees of freedom in engineering the reflection and transmission characteristics of metasurfaces. Furthermore, we discuss advantages and disadvantages of equivalent volumetric and fully planar realizations of the same properties of functional metasurfaces.
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@article{arxiv.1801.03270,
title = {Functional metasurfaces: Do we need normal polarizations?},
author = {Sergei A. Tretyakov and Do-Hoon Kwon and Mohammad Albooyeh and Filippo Capolino},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.03270},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
3 pages, 2 figures, XXXIInd International Union of Radio Science General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, paper B7-1, pp. 1-3, Montreal, Canada, 19-26 August 2017 (invited)