Polarization Multiplexing Hologram Realized by Anisotropic Digital Metasurface
Tao Yan, Qian Ma, Shi Sun, Qiang Xiao, Iqbal Shahid, Xinxin Gao, Tie Jun Cui
Abstract
Abstract Metasurface holograms have the potential to be applied in a variety of practical fields. Here an anisotropic digital metasurface is proposed that can project polarization multiplexing patterns at the microwave frequency, in which a modified Gerchberg–Saxton algorithm is presented to calculate the phase masks. A 3‐bit coding metamaterial unit is also proposed, which is capable of independently manipulating the transmission phases of orthogonal linearly polarized electromagnetic waves. The influence of wave‐front has been analyzed by comparing two holographic results with distinct source optimization methods. A prototype of the anisotropic digital coding metasurface optimized with horn wave‐front is designed, manufactured, and tested. The experimental measurements present the expected holographic fields and have a good match with the simulation results.