Perfect Plane-Wave to Surface-Wave Coupler Enabled Teleporting Conformal Metasurfaces

Abstract: A technique for the design of conformal metasurfaces with two spatially disconnected space wave ports connected by a surface wave is presented. The passive and lossless metasurface absorbs the incident plane wave at port 1, converts it perfectly into a surface wave which transports the energy along an arbitrarily shaped/curved metasurface to port 2, then reradiates the captured power as a radiated field with control over its amplitude and phase. Since the incident field is seen to disappear at the input port and reappear at a spatially dislocated port as a new formed beam, the field can be said to have teleported. The metasurface consists of a single, conformal, spatially variant, impedance sheet supported by a conformal grounded dielectric substrate of the same shape. It is modeled using integral equations. The impedances of the sheet are optimized using the adjoint variable method to achieve the perfect teleporting operation from a passive and lossless metasurface. Possible applications include channel optimization for cellular networks, inexpensive power harvesting, sensing, around-the-corner radar, and cloaking.