Wideband, wide-angle coding phase gradient metasurfaces based on Pancharatnam-Berry phase

Abstract

A new concept of the coding phase gradient metasurface (CPGM) is proposed, which is constructed using the phase gradient metasurface as the coding elements. Different from the previous coding metasurface (CM), both the coding sequences and gradient phases in the coding elements are designed to manipulate the electromagnetic (EM) wave for the CPGMs, and thus the manipulation will be more flexible. As an example, wide-band, wide-angle CPGMs with zero and non-zero phase gradient based on Pancharatnam-Berry (PB) phase are achieved using the co-polarization reflection unit cells under circularly polarized (CP) wave incidence. Both theoretically calculated and numerically simulated scattering patterns of the designed CPGMs demonstrate the expected manipulations. Additionally, two kinds of random CPGMs with different phase gradients are designed for radar cross section (RCS) reduction, and the measured RCS reveals a good accordance with the simulation.