Structure Radio Beam Construction in Azimuthal Domain

Abstract

Structure radio beams with diverse radiation patterns exhibit huge potentials in many applications. In this paper, we propose a plane spiral orbital angular momentum (PS-OAM) based structure radio beam construction scheme, in which several PS-OAM waves are superposed together to acquire the anticipated radiation pattern and phase distribution in azimuthal domain. Firstly, some typical shapes of the radiation patterns are demonstrated. Then, the properties of this kind of structure radio beam, for example diversity, periodicity, vorticity and directional gain are analysed in detail from mathematical analysis and simulation verification. Finally, a proof of principle experiment is carried out at 10 GHz using a multi PS-OAM antenna to further testify the feasibility of the structure radio beam construction. The interesting properties provided by structure radio beams would offer promising solutions to radar imaging, smart antenna, massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) and spatial modulation multiple input multiple output (SM-MIMO).

Keywords

• Structure radio beam
• radiation pattern
• orbital angular momentum
• diversity
• vorticity