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Polarimetric Control of Reflective Metasurfaces

Optics 2015-06-11 v1

Abstract

This letter addresses the synthesis of reflective cells approaching a given desired Floquet's scattering matrix. This work is motivated by the need to obtain much finer control of reflective metasurfaces by controlling not only their co-polarized reflection but also their cross-coupling behavior. The demonstrated capability will enable more powerful design approaches -involving all field components in phase and magnitude- and consequently better performance in applications involving reflective metasurfaces. We first expose some fundamental theoretical constraints on the cell scattering parameters. Then, a successful procedure for controlling all four scattering parameters by applying parallelogram and trapezoid transformations to square patches is presented, considering both normal and oblique incidence.

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@article{arxiv.1210.4754,
  title  = {Polarimetric Control of Reflective Metasurfaces},
  author = {Xavier Artiga and Daniele Bresciani and Hervé Legay and Julien Perruisseau-Carrier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.4754},
  year   = {2015}
}