Electronically Reconﬁgurable Liquid Crystal Based Mm-Wave Polarization Converter

E. Doumanis; G. Goussetis; R. Dickie; R. Cahill; P. Baine; M. Bain; V. Fusco; J.A. Encinar; G. Toso

doi:10.1109/TAP.2014.2302844

Electronically Reconﬁgurable Liquid Crystal Based Mm-Wave Polarization Converter

E. Doumanis^*
, G. Goussetis
, R. Dickie
, R. Cahill
, P. Baine
, M. Bain
, V. Fusco
, J.A. Encinar
, G. Toso

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Abstract

An electronically tunable reflection polarizer which exploits the dielectric anisotropy of nematic liquid crystals (LC) has been designed, fabricated and measured in a frequency band centered at 130 GHz. The phase agile polarizing mirror converts an incident slant 45° signal upon reflection to right hand circular (RHCP), orthogonal linear (-45 °) or left hand circular (LHCP) polarization depending on the value of the voltage biasing the LC mixture. In the experimental set-up this is achieved by applying a low frequency bias voltage of 0 V, 40 V and 89 V respectively, across the cavity containing the LC material.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2302-2307
Number of pages	6
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume	62
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2014.2302844
Publication status	Published - Apr 2014

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