Dual‐mode dual‐polarization orbital angular momentum metasurface antenna with in‐band radar cross‐section reduction

Abstract

In this paper, an orbital angular momentum (OAM) metasurface antenna is proposed. Based on the idea of controlling the radiation and scattering simultaneously, the metasurface unit cells play two roles of radiating and scattering energy. For radiation, the metasurface unit cells are excited by two carefully designed phase shift networks (PSNs) at two orthogonal directions. Thus, OAM vortex waves with topological charge l = ±1 are generated at 7.48 GHz band. For scattering, the incident wave is deflected through the phase canceling scheme due to the anisotropy property of the metasurface unit cells. As a result, the in‐band radar cross section is reduced. A prototype of the antenna was fabricated and measured. The measurement results agreed well with the simulations.