Emulating arbitrary antenna arrays with low-profile probe-fed cavity-excited omega-bianisotropic metasurface antennas

We present a methodology to design cavity-excited omega-bianisotropic metasurface (O-BMS) antennas capable of producing arbitrary radiation patterns, prescribed by antenna array theory. The method relies on previous work, in which we proved that utilizing the three O-BMS degrees of freedom, namely, electric and magnetic polarizabilities, and magnetoelectric coupling, any field transformation that obeys local power conservation can be implemented via passive lossless components. When the O-BMS acts as the top cover of a metallic cavity excited by a point source, this property allows optimization of the metasurface modal reflection coefficients to establish any desirable power profile on the aperture. Matching in this way the excitation profile to the target power profile corresponding to the desirable aperture fields allows emulation of arbitrary discrete antenna array radiation patterns. The resultant low-profile probed-fed cavity-excited O-BMS antennas offer a new means for meticulous pattern control, without requiring complex, expensive, and often lossy, feed networks.

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