An efficient broadband metamaterial wave retarder.
Metamaterials with anisotropic electromagnetic properties have the capability to manipulate the polarization states of electromagnetic waves. We describe a method to design a broadband, low-loss wave retarder with graded constitutive parameter distributions based on non-resonant metamaterial elements. A structured metamaterial half-wave retarder that converts one linear polarization to its cross polarization is designed and its performance is characterized experimentally.
Chin
Jessie Y
JY
Department of Radio Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China.
Gollub
Jonah N
JN
Mock
Jack J
JJ
Liu
Ruopeng
R
Harrison
Cameron
C
Smith
David R
DR
Cui
Tie Jun
TJ
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