Polarimetric Control of Reflective Metasurfaces

This letter addresses the synthesis of reflective cells approaching a given desired Floquet´s scattering matrix. This work is motivated by the need to obtain much finer control of reflective metasurfaces by controlling not only their copolarized reflection, but also their cross-coupling behavior. The demonstrated capability will enable more powerful design approaches-involving all field components in phase and magnitude-and consequently better performance in applications involving reflective metasurfaces. We first expose some fundamental theoretical constraints on the cell scattering parameters. Then, a successful procedure for controlling all four scattering parameters by applying parallelogram and trapezoid transformations to square patches is presented, considering both normal and oblique incidence.