Capacity Modelling and Performance Analysis of OAM-OFDM Wireless Communication Systems

Abstract

The Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) wireless communication technology has received much attention in recent years for its natural orthogonality between different OAM states. Combining the OAM technology with the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technology, we proposed a new OAM-OFDM wireless communication system to explore a new approach for enhancing the transmission capacity of the wireless communication system. Atmospheric turbulence is an important factor for influencing the capacity of the OAM-OFDM wireless communication system. In consideration of the effect of the atmospheric turbulence, we derived a crosstalk model of the proposed OAM-OFDM wireless communication system. Furthermore, a capacity model of the OAM-OFDM wireless communication system is proposed in consideration of the effect of atmospheric turbulence on both the OAM and OFDM signals. Compared with the conventional OAM wireless communication system, the capacity performance of the proposed OAM-OFDM wireless communication system is significantly improved and the average improvement is 751%.

Keywords

• Orbital angular momentum
• capacity
• bit error ratio
• orthogonal frequency division multiplexing