Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Achieving multi-beam directional manipulation of electromagnetic waves and energy management of each beam has important application value in fields such as satellite communications. Existing methods for realizing multi-beam formation and energy distribution using metasurfaces have problems such as slow optimization speed and low design accuracy. To break through this design bottleneck, a new design paradigm is proposed that introduces the 2D image matching algorithm into the design process of metasurfaces for multi-beam energy management. By using 2D grayscale images to characterize the far-field patterns generated by the metasurface array and the expected multi-beams, a wavefront characterization and matching optimization model driven by 2D grayscale images is established, ultimately achieving the customized design of beam position, intensity, and sidelobe constraints. The fully customized beam metasurface constructed using this method generates multiple y-polarized reflected directional beams under x-polarized wave incidence, and the beam energy distribution ratio can be customized as expected. Both simulation and test results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. This method provides a new design idea for metasurface devices for multi-beam energy management.
Source: Materials
DOI: 10.3390/ma19010004
Language: English
Subfield: Aerospace Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,137
Awards: G152555958, G3504254618
OpenAlex ID: W4417493838