Meta-Surface Cavity-Based Waveguide Slot Array for Dual-Circularly Polarized Dual Beam

Abstract

We introduce a meta-surface cavity into the waveguide slot array design and demonstrate the perfect generation of dual-circularly polarized (CP) dual-beams, where the cavity consists of meta-surface coated dielectric substrate surrounded by metallic vias and metal walls. When integrated with the rectangular waveguide, the meta-surface cavity functions as the leaky wave passage, capable of coupling the linearly polarized incidence from the feed into the cavity and releasing the resonant mode with birefringent radiations of right-hand and left-hand CP waves. Our design, performing the beam splitting and polarization conversion simultaneously as a waveguide slot array, should pave the way for building up more advanced meta-surface-based architectures for the manipulations of electromagnetic fields in the transmission regime.