Abstract
This paper presents a simple method to realize a circular polarizer by
inserting rods arranged helically in the cylindrical waveguide. In the
proposed polarizer, the rods are installed to excite the electric fields
on the perpendicular axis to the input field. In addition, the rod
locations create a 90⁰ phase difference between two perpendicular axes
to convert the polarization from linear to circular. In the proposed
structure, the axial ratio is smaller than 0.4 dB and the phase
difference is about 90⁰ at 10 GHz frequency. In addition, the reflection
coefficients are better than -14 dB for both E_x and E_y polarizations
at the same frequency. Also, this structure is very compact compared to
similar structures. Furthermore, this is made only of metal. Therefore,
there is no dielectric loss and it has high endurance. The validation
results have a good agreement with the simulation.