High-efficiency and ultra-broadband asymmetric transmission metasurface based on topologically coding optimization method

Achieving asymmetric transmission effects, especially in an ultra-broadband frequency region, is of particular importance in communication systems. Currently available asymmetric transmission metasurfaces are limited to narrow bands and low efficiencies because of the inherently dispersion effects and large transmission fluctuations. In this paper, we propose a new strategy to realize high efficiency and ultra-broadband asymmetric transmission in an ultra-thin profile by using the topologically coding optimization method. The meta-atom consists of two outer orthogonal gratings and a central lattice particle optimized by genetic algorithm. The optimized central lattice suppresses the transmission fluctuations by tuning the coupling among different metallic layers, resulting in very broad band and high transmissions. Experimental results show that our metasurface achieved perfect reflection over 95% and high cross-polarization transmission over 80% for y- and x-polarized incidence from 5.3 GHz to 16.7 GHz, respectively. Our findings pave a way to high-performance and broadband polarization transformers and polarization-controlled devices working in different frequency domains. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement