A General Solution for Double-Layer Gradient-Index and Geodesic Lenses with Rotational SymmetryShow others and affiliations
2023 (English)In: 2023 17TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION, EUCAP, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
A double-layer lens consists of a pair of rotationally symmetric index profiles or geodesic lens shapes connected by a reflecting mirror partially covering their common periphery. Such a lens can provide a focus in each layer, and a wave travelling between the foci explores both layers. Here, we concentrate on the case with one layer being homogeneous or flat, and derive a general solution for the lens profiles by solving a Luneburg-like inverse problem with pre-specified foci inside or outside the lens, and different background indices in two layers. We demonstrate four examples of interest in ray-tracing plots. These lenses may find application in communications, sensing, and imaging from millimeter waves up to the optical bands.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023.
Series
Proceedings of the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, ISSN 2164-3342
Keywords [en]
Double-layer lens, geodesic lens, gradient index, fully metallic, PPW, lens antennas, metasurfaces, millimeter waves, sub-THz
National Category
Telecommunications
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-335967DOI: 10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10133223ISI: 001023316901086Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85162219211OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-335967DiVA, id: diva2:1795874
Conference
17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), MAR 26-31, 2023, Florence, ITALY
Note
Part of ISBN 978-88-31299-07-7
QC 20230911
2023-09-112023-09-112023-11-06Bibliographically approved