A review of orbital angular momentum vortex beams generation: from traditional methods to metasurfaces

K Zhang, Y Wang, Y Yuan, SN Burokur - Applied sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we review the generation of vortex beams carrying orbital angular momentum
in the microwave domain. We firstly present the theory of Laguerre–Gaussian beams where …

Thermally tunable terahertz vortex beam generator based on an InSb metasurface

B He, J Fan, Y Cheng, F Chen, H Luo, R Gong - JOSA B, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In this work, a thermally tunable dielectric metasurface (DMS) composed of InSb cylindrical
micropillars is proposed to generate vortex beam in the terahertz region. The full 2π phase …

Metasurface loaded high gain antenna based microwave imaging using iteratively corrected delay multiply and sum algorithm

MT Islam, M Samsuzzaman, S Kibria, N Misran… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
In this paper, the design consideration is investigated for a cylindrical system with low-cost
and low-loss dielectric materials for the detection of breast tumor using iteratively corrected …

Millimeter-wave holographic flat lens antenna for orbital angular momentum multiplexing

GB Wu, KF Chan, KM Shum… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a holograph-inspired flat lens antenna capable of simultaneously transmitting
two independent coaxially propagating orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams operating …

Bidirectional multi-mode microwave vortex beam generation enabled by spoof surface plasmon polaritons

H Feng, L Ye, Y Zhang, W Li, H Chen, QH Liu - Applied Physics Letters, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The microwave spectrum has become more and more crowded, motivating the investigation
of new techniques to increase the communication capacity. Vortex beams carrying orbital …

Research status and prospects of orbital angular momentum technology in wireless communication

F Zheng, Y Chen, S Ji, G Duan - Progress In Electromagnetics Research, 2020 - jpier.org
It becomes more and more challenging to satisfy the long-term demand of transmission
capacity in wireless networks if we limit our research within the frame of traditional …

Broadband high-efficiency electromagnetic orbital angular momentum beam generation based on a dielectric metasurface

Z Lin, Z Ba, X Wang - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electromagnetic waves carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have motivated a wealth
of applications. Achromatic or broadband OAM beams are preferred in many applications …

Vortex beam generation based on plasma reflect-array surface at microwave frequencies

E Koohkan, S Jarchi, A Ghorbani… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) is a promising feature of electromagnetic (EM) wave to
increase the communication link capacity. It is possible to use the OAM over the whole …

Orbital angular momentum radiator multiplexing electromagnetic waves in free space

J Ren, KW Leung, DQ Liu, KM Luk, JF Mao - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes of electromagnetic (EM) waves have been
extensively studied to obtain more than two independent channels at a single frequency …

Adiabatic Floquet-wave expansion for the analysis of leaky-wave holograms generating polarized vortex beams

A Amini, H Oraizi - Physical Review Applied, 2021 - APS
In this paper we combine the aperture field estimation technique and adiabatic Floquet-
wave expansion method for the analysis of leaky-wave holograms capable of generating …