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Abstract

Orbital angular moment modes (OAMs) have been proven to be promising resources for increasing communication capacity. To generate wideband and high purity OAM, we have proposed a transmitting metasurface with amplitude-phase dual control. The proposed unit cell is a novel split ring structure with upper and lower grating-like structures. By changing the direction angle and rotation angle of the split ring unit, the cross-polarization phase response and amplitude response of the unit are controlled respectively. The amplitude distribution of the metasurface array is calculated using Chebyshev synthesis method (CSM). We designed metasurface arrays with mode numbers l = 1, 2, 3 and it generated high purity OAM beams in the frequency band of 22--32\,GHz. Compared with traditional phase-control metasurface, amplitude-phase control surface can effectively improve the quality of OAM generation. The results have verified the accuracy of the proposed method, and the proposed method has potential applications in future communication system.

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