A Low-Profile, Broadband Dual-Circularly-Polarized Bidirectional Folded Transmitarray
Bo, X.
;
Carvalho, N.B.C.
;
Pinho, P.
; Shen, M.
IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters Vol. , Nº , pp. 1 - 5, , 2025.
ISSN (print): 1536-1225
ISSN (online): 1548-5757
Scimago Journal Ranking: 1,63 (in 2023)
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/LAWP.2025.3549775
Abstract
In this letter, a low-profile, broadband, and bidirec tional folded transmitarray (Bi-FTA) is proposed. It consists of a left-hand and a right-hand circularly polarized (CP) sources and two multifunctional metasurfaces (MFMs). Two wideband CP magneto-electric (ME) dipoles acting as feeds are integrated into the upper and lower metasurfaces respectively. Both metasurfaces employ similar receiver-transmitter (Rx-Tx) structures and work as a CP selective surface (CPSS) at the Ku band. By controlling the reflection phase distributions, the incident waves undergo anomalous reflections, which are different from the specular used in conventional FTA designs. A reduced profile of the Bi-FTA is achieved. The proposed Bi-FTA is validated by experimental tests and shows satisfactory agreement with simulations. The measured peak gain values reach 22.96 and 22.83 dBic for +z direction LHCP and -z direction RHCP beams, corresponding to aperture MMF-I z y On 6 LHCP Source 4 3 H=F/n O1 O2 MMF-II LHCP RHCP MMF-I 1 2 RHCP Source z Om 5 y x x MFM-II (a) (b) Fig. 1. (a) 3D view of the proposed Bi-FTA. (b) Ray tracing diagram of the proposed low-profile dual-CP Bi-FTA. efficiencies of 25.3% and 24.5%. The measured AR< 3 dB bandwidths are 34.1% and 35.3% for +z direction LHCP and -z direction RHCP beams. The proposed Bi-FTA features the characteristics of low profile, broadband, high gain, planar integration, and bidirectional dual CP radiation, which serve as a strong candidate for mm-wave long-distance wireless systems such as satellite communications. Index Terms—Bidirectional, low-profile, dual-circularly polarized, multifunctional metasurface, folded transmitarray.