Passive Lossless Huygens Metasurfaces for Conversion of Arbitrary Source Field to Directive Radiation

DOI10.1109/TAP.2014.2354419MaRDI QIDQ5366665zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ariel Epstein, George V. Eleftheriades

Publication date 9 October 2017

Published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.1076

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Antennas, waveguides in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A50)

Abstract: We present a semi-analytical formulation of the interaction between a given source field and a scalar Huygens metasurface (HMS), a recently introduced promising concept for wavefront manipulation based on a sheet of orthogonal electric and magnetic dipoles. Utilizing the equivalent surface impedance representation of these metasurfaces, we establish that an arbitrary source field can be converted into directive radiation via a passive lossless HMS if two physical conditions are met: local power conservation and local impedance equalization. Expressing the fields via their plane-wave spectrum and harnessing the slowly-varying envelope approximation we obtain semi-analytical formulae for the scattered fields, and prescribe the surface reactance required for the metasurface implementation. The resultant design procedure indicates that the local impedance equalization induces a Fresnel-like reflection, while local power conservation forms a radiating virtual aperture which follows the total excitation field magnitude. The semi-analytical predictions are verified by finite-element simulations of HMSs designed for different source configurations. Besides serving as a flexible design procedure for HMS radiators, the proposed formulation also provides a robust mechanism to incorporate a variety of source configurations into general HMS models, as well as physical insight on the conditions enabling purely reactive implementation of this novel type of metasurfaces.

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