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Orbital angular momentum wave generation/detection based on planar multi‐slot‐spiral circularly polarized antenna
Author(s) -
Koohkan Ehsan,
Jarchi Saughar,
Ghorbani Ayaz,
Bod Mohammad
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.32854
Subject(s) - physics , angular momentum , optics , patch antenna , radiation pattern , microstrip antenna , antenna (radio) , vortex , microstrip , telecommunications , engineering , classical mechanics , thermodynamics
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) as vortex wave has potential application for dense communication. A multi‐slot antenna is proposed based on Archimedean spirals to generate/detect the OAM waves. The antenna equips three radiation slots in a disk‐manner to realize three different OAM modes simultaneously. A serial‐fed microstrip array is designed for circularly polarized (CP) radiation. The lengths of the slots and microstrip lines are chosen to radiate at 3.5 GHz with 20% fractional bandwidth. So, it can identify the receiving modes of vortex wave with this mechanism. A prominent spiral phase plane is observed for the generated OAM wave. In addition, the far‐field pattern presents a doughnut‐shape beam. The whole antenna is fabricated on a 13 cm printed circuit disk board. Both the experimental and simulation results show that the proposed antenna has valuable features to produce different vortex modes.

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