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In recent times, we experimentally realized a quite efficient modeling of the shape of diffraction-resistant optical beams; thus generating for the first time the so-called Frozen Waves (FW), whose longitudinal intensity pattern can be…

Current literature show that frequency diverse arrays (FDAs) are able of producing range-angle-dependent and time-variant transmit beampatterns, but the resulting time and range dependencies and their characteristics are still not well…

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The decadal research in integrated true-time-delay arrays have seen organic growth enabling realization of wideband beamformers for large arrays with wide aperture widths. This article introduces highly reconfigurable delay elements…

In the past two decades, a rebirth of interest in low-frequency radio astronomy for 21 cm tomography of the Epoch of Reionization, has given rise to a new class of radio interferometers with $N \gg 100$ antennas. The availability of…

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In most multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems, e.g., Massive MIMO, the antenna spacing is generally no less than half a wavelength. It helps to reduce the mutual coupling and therefore facilitate the system design. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Liangcheng Han , Haifan Yin , Thomas L. Marzetta

A new methodology for the design of isophoric thinned arrays with a priori controlled pattern features is introduced. A fully analytical and general (i.e., valid for any lattice and set of weights) relationship between the autocorrelation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 G. Oliveri , G. Gottardi , M. A. Hannan , N. Anselmi , L. Poli

We propose a new method for testing antenna arrays that records the radiating electromagnetic (EM) field using an absorbing material and evaluating the resulting thermal image series through an AI using a conditional encoder-decoder model.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Hans Hao-Hsun Hsu , Jiawen Xu , Ravi Sama , Matthias Kovatsch

The paper considers sparse array design for receive beamforming achieving maximum signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (MaxSINR) for both single point source and multiple point sources, operating in an interference active environment.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Syed A. Hamza , Moeness G. Amin

Large antenna arrays can steer narrow beams towards a target area, and thus improve the communications capacity of wireless channels and the fidelity of radio sensing. Hardware that is capable of continuously-variable phase shifts is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Minsung Kim , Annalise Stockley , Keith Briggs , Kyle Jamieson

Millimeter-wave communications rely on beamforming gain from both transmitters and receivers to compensate for severe propagation loss. To achieve adequate gain, beam training is required to identify propagation directions. The main…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-06 Han Yan , Veljko Boljanovic , Danijela Cabric

In the recent papers [1-4] including above paper time modulated frequency diverse arrays (FDAs) have been presented to obtain time invariant spatial patterns. The presented FDAs in [1-3] have the feature of time-invariant spatial focusing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-03 Mahdi Fartookzadeh

We describe here a method to generate high-definition arbitrary laser beam shapes and profiles useful to many applications, ranging from optical patterning and lithography to optical trapping of microscopic particles and ultracold atoms.…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-22 Pedro Faleiros Silva , Sérgio Ricardo Muniz

A parasitic reconfigurable antenna array is a low-power approach for beamforming using passive tunable elements. Prior work on reconfigurable antennas in communication theory is based on ideal radiation pattern abstractions. It does not…

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I present the Automated Line Fitting Algorithm, ALFA, a new code which can fit emission line spectra of arbitrary wavelength coverage and resolution, fully automatically. In contrast to traditional emission line fitting methods which…

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This paper provides details about experiments in realistic, urban, and frequency flat channels with space-time coding that specifically examines the impact of the number of receive antennas and the design criteria for code selection on the…

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Reconfigurable antennas (RAs) utilize the electromagnetic (EM) domain to provide dynamic control over antenna radiation patterns, which offers an effective way to enhance power efficiency in wireless links. Unlike conventional arrays with…

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Advances in reflectarrays and array lenses with electronic beam-forming capabilities are enabling a host of new possibilities for these high-performance, low-cost antenna architectures. This paper reviews enabling technologies and…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-19 Sean Victor Hum , Julien Perruisseau-Carrier

Modern interferometric imaging relies on advanced calibration that incorporates direction-dependent effects. Their increasing number of antennas (e.g. in LOFAR, VLA, MeerKAT/SKA) and sensitivity are often tempered with the accuracy of their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 K. Iheanetu , J. N. Girard , O. Smirnov , K. M. B. Asad , M. de Villiers , K. Thorat , S. Makhathini , R. A. Perley

Characteristic Mode analysis is a widely used technique in antenna design, providing insight into the fundamental electromagnetic properties of radiating structures. In this paper, we establish fundamental bounds on the slope of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Johan Lundgren , Mats Gustafsson

Different aspects of probabilistic shaping for a multi-span optical communication system are studied. First, a numerical analysis of the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel investigates the effect of using a small number of input…

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