“…The GSL is then harnessed as a guide of the element arrangement with periodicity, which can be rewritten considering the diffracted wave as [
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where m denotes the diffracted order stemming from the periodicity of the structure. Supposing that the metasurface in a period is constructed by arranging the elements in the sequence, that is, elements #1, #2, #3, …, #8, then the factor
can be simplified as 2π/ D owing to the linear variation of Φ( x ), in which D is the periodic length of the metasurface.…”