Waves, modes, communications, and optics: a tutorial

DAB Miller - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Modes generally provide an economical description of waves, reducing complicated wave
functions to finite numbers of mode amplitudes, as in propagating fiber modes and ideal …

A primer on near-field communications for next-generation multiple access

C Ouyang, Z Wang, Y Chen, X Mu… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiple-antenna technologies are advancing toward the development of extremely large
aperture arrays and the utilization of extremely high frequencies, driving the progress of next …

Electromagnetic effective degree of freedom of an MIMO system in free space

SSA Yuan, Z He, X Chen, C Huang… - IEEE Antennas and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Effective degree of freedom (EDOF) of a multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) system
represents its equivalent number of independent single-input–single-output (SISO) systems …

Electromagnetic interference in RIS-aided communications

A de Jesus Torres, L Sanguinetti… - IEEE Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The prospects of using a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to aid wireless
communication systems have recently received much attention. Among the different use …

On the spectral efficiency of multi-user holographic MIMO uplink transmission

M Qian, L You, XG **a, X Gao - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With antenna spacing much less than half a wavelength in confined space, holographic
multiple-input multiple-output (HMIMO) technology presents a promising frontier in next …

Wavenumber-division multiplexing in line-of-sight holographic MIMO communications

L Sanguinetti, AA D'Amico… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Starting from first principles of wave propagation, we consider a multiple-input multiple-
output (MIMO) representation of a communication system between two spatially-continuous …

Continuous aperture array (CAPA)-based wireless communications: Capacity characterization

B Zhao, C Ouyang, X Zhang, Y Liu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2406.15056, 2024 - arxiv.org
The capacity limits of continuous-aperture array (CAPA)-based wireless communications are
characterized. To this end, an analytically tractable transmission framework is established …

Pattern-division multiplexing for multi-user continuous-aperture MIMO

Z Zhang, L Dai - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, thanks to the advances in meta-materials, the concept of continuous-
aperture MIMO (CAP-MIMO) is reinvestigated to achieve improved communication …

Enhanced resolution method for electromagnetic vortex imaging based on electromagnetic information theory

D Liu, H Shi, T Yang, Z Qiao - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The electromagnetic vortex imaging possesses independent orbital angular momentum
(OAM) with orthogonal degrees of freedom (DoFs), which implies the existence of enhanced …

Cramér-Rao bounds of near-field positioning based on electromagnetic propagation model

A Chen, L Chen, Y Chen, C You… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The adoption of large-scale antenna arrays at high-frequency bands is widely envisioned in
the beyond 5G wireless networks. This leads to the near-field regime where the wavefront is …