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Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) Antennas via Mode Combining and Canceling in Near-field
- 발행일
- 201710
- 출처
- Scientific Reports, v.7, pp.1-9
- ISSN
- 2045-2322
- 출판사
- Nature Publishing Group
- 초록
- Orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode combining and canceling in the near-field was investigated using a Cassegrain dual-reflectarray antenna composed of multiple microstrip patches on the main and sub-reflectarrays. Microstrip patches on dielectric substrates were designed to radiate the particular OAM modes for arithmetic mode combining, where two OAM wave-generating reflectarrays are very closely placed in the near-field. We conducted near-field antenna measurements at 18 [GHz] by manually replacing the sub-reflectarray substrates with different OAM mode numbers of 0, 짹1, when the OAM mode number of the main reflectarray was fixed to +1. We subsequently checked the azimuthal phase distributions of the reflected total electromagnetic waves in the near-field, and verified that the OAM waves mutually reflected from the main and sub-reflectarrays are added or subtracted to each other according to their OAM mode numbers. Based on our proposal, an OAM mode-canceling reflectarray antenna was designed, and the following measurements indicate that the antenna has a better reflection bandwidth and antenna gain than a conventional reflectarray antenna. The concept of OAM mode canceling in the near-field can contribute widely to a new type of low-profile, broad-reflection bandwidth, and high-gain antenna.
- KSP 제안 키워드
- Antenna gain, Dielectric substrate, Electromagnetic waves(EM), High Gain Antenna(HGA), Mode number, OAM modes, OAM wave, Orbital Angular Momentum, Phase distribution, Reflectarray antenna, Reflection bandwidth