The invention discloses a low-profile dual-circularly polarized wave
beam scanning folding reflection array antenna. The low-profile dual-circularly polarized wave
beam scanning folding
reflective array antenna comprises a lower
reflective array antenna and an upper circularly polarized selection metasurface. A
circular polarization plane feed source is integrated in the middle of the
reflective array antenna, and beam deflection is achieved. The
circular polarization selection metasurface introduces opposite phase gradients to a left-hand
circular polarization wave beam and a right-hand circular polarization wave beam through spin decoupling, and then introduces opposite wave beam deflection angles. Meanwhile, due to the polarization selection function of the circular polarization selection metasurface, the profile height of the antenna is half of the
focal length of a traditional reflective array. By rotating the lower-layer reflective array antenna and the upper-layer circular polarization selection metasurface, the antenna can realize simultaneous + / -42-degree
pitch angle scanning and 360-degree
azimuth angle scanning of left-hand circular polarization and right-hand circular polarization dual beams, and the aperture efficiency, the
axial ratio, the scanning loss and other performances are good. The low-profile dual-circularly-polarized wave
beam scanning folding reflection array antenna provided by the invention can realize simultaneous scanning of two circularly-polarized wave beams, and is low in profile, compact in structure, low in cost and novel in function.