Spatiotemporal Acoustic Communication by a Single Sensor via Rotational Doppler Effect

Abstract

Abstract A longstanding pursuit in information communication is to increase transmission capacity and accuracy, with multiplexing technology playing as a promising solution. To overcome the challenges of limited spatial information density and systematic complexity in acoustic communication, here real‐time spatiotemporal communication is proposed and experimentally demonstrated by a single sensor based on the rotational Doppler effect. The information carried in multiplexed orbital‐angular‐momentum (OAM) channels is transformed into the physical quantities of the temporal harmonic waveform and simultaneously detected by a single sensor. This single‐sensor configuration is independent of the channel number and encoding scheme. The parallel transmission of complicated images is demonstrated by multiplexing eight OAM channels and achieving an extremely‐low bit error rate (BER) exceeding 0.02%, owing to the intrinsic discrete frequency shift of the rotational Doppler effect. The immunity to inner‐mode crosstalk and robustness to noise of the simple and low‐cost communication paradigm offers promising potential to promote relevant fields.

Keywords

• acoustic communication
• rotational doppler effect
• single sensor
• spatiotemporal conversion