Generating Bessel Beams Efficiently in Microwave With High Transmission Metasurfaces

In this article, two transmissive metasurfaces with different phase control mechanisms and working polarization condition are proposed to efficiently generate zero order Bessel beams (BBs), respectively. For the linear polarization condition, a dual-mode meta-atom constructed by three layers of dielectric substrate and four layers of metal patch is designed. By changing the size of metal patches of meta-atom along x-axis and y-axis, respectively, the phase shift for x- and y-polarized incident wave can be tuned relative independently of 0-2 pi while the transmission coefficient keeps high value at 10 GHz. For the circular polarization condition, a sandwich type meta-atom applying geometric phase to realize full phase control while keep high efficiency near 10 GHz is designed. According to the designed phase profile of BBs, select meta-atoms with certain phase and efficiency, then arrange them to construct metasurfaces. Full wave simulation results indicate that the dual-mode metasurface working in linear polarization condition generates BBs with the maximum transmission efficiency 0.79 and 0.85 for x and y polarization wave, respectively, and the geometric phase metasurface working in circular polarization condition generates BBs with the maximum transmission efficiency 0.92. Besides, the propagation characteristics of the excited BBs are studied.

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Two transmissive metasurfaces are proposed in this article to efficiently generate zero order Bessel beams under different phase control mechanisms and working polarization conditions. By designing different meta-atoms, the metasurfaces achieve high transmission efficiency for Bessel beams in linear and circular polarization conditions.