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Wideband high-efficient linear polarization rotators

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We demonstrate a wideband polarization rotator with characteristics of high efficiency and large-range incidence angle by using a very simple anisotropic reflective metasurface. The calculated results show that reflection coefficient of cross polarization is larger than 71% over an octave frequency bandwidth from ~4.9 GHz to ~10.4 GHz. The proposed metasurface can still work very well even at incidence angle of 60°. The experiment at microwave frequencies is carried out and its results agree well with the simulated ones.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11504305 and 61372048).

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  1. Institute of Electromagnetics and Acoustics, Department of Electronic Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China

    Zheng-Yong Song & Qiong-Qiong Chu

  2. School of Physical Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, China

    Xiao-Peng Shen

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA

    Qing Huo Liu

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Song, ZY., Chu, QQ., Shen, XP. et al. Wideband high-efficient linear polarization rotators. Front. Phys. 13, 137803 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-018-0779-x

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