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\begin{abstract} We show that it is possible to design corrugated waveguides where phase and group velocities coincide at an inflection point of the dispersion relation, allowing an extended regime of interaction with a charge particle…
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We describe a theoretical procedure for analyzing astronomical phased arrays with overlapping beams, and apply the procedure to simulate a simple example. We demonstrate the effect of overlapping beams on the number of degrees of freedom of…
Acoustic phased arrays are capable of steering and focusing a beam of sound via selective coordination of the spatial distribution of phase angles between multiple sound emitters. Constrained by the principle of reciprocity, conventional…
We developed an optical phased array using an optical frequency comb and demonstrated its proof-of-principle. Optical phased arrays have been actively developed in recent years as a technology that can control the wavefront of light without…
Radar beam broadening provides continuous coverage of a wider angular extent. While many methods have been published that address beam broadening of traditional (nonsubarrayed) arrays, there is a knowledge gap in the published literature…
To overcome the limited payload of lightweight vehicles such as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and the aerodynamic constraints on the onboard radar, a compact nonuniform conformal array is proposed in order to achieve a wide beamscanning…
Hybrid beamforming is an attractive solution to build cost-effective and energy-efficient transceivers for millimeter-wave and terahertz systems. However, conventional hybrid beamforming techniques rely on analog components that generate a…
Precession of a converged beam during acquisition of a 4D-STEM dataset improves strain, orientation, and phase mapping accuracy by averaging over continuous angles of illumination. Precession experiments usually rely on integrated systems,…
In wideband near-field arrays, frequency-dependent array responses cause wavefronts at different frequencies to deviate from that at the center frequency, producing beam squint and degrading multi-user performance. True-time-delay (TTD)…
We propose a new method for integrating metasurfaces in optical design using semi-analytical modelling of dielectric nanostructures. The latter computes the output phase of an electric field incident on the metasurface, allowing their use…
This study presents a nonreciprocal-beam phased-array antenna constituted of phase-gradient patch radiators integrated with transistor-based nonreciprocal phase shifters. Such an antenna exhibits different beams for transmission and…
Recent metasurface developments have led to their consideration for extending the angular scan range of phased arrays. This paper considers the use of Huygens' metasurfaces as lenses to accomplish the task. Ray optics is used to uncover how…
An accurate method for designing transmissive metasurfaces is presented that provides perfect transmission while transforming the amplitude and phase of the wavefront. The designed metasurfaces consist of three spatially-varying, electric…
Near-field sensing with extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAAs) in practical 6G systems is expected to operate over broad bandwidths, where delay, Doppler, and spatial effects become tightly coupled across frequency. The purpose of…
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We have designed and experimentally realized an ultra-broadband acoustic metasurface (UBAM) capable of going beyond the intrinsic limitation of bandwidth in existing designs of optical/acoustical metasurfaces. Both the numerical and…
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a planar array of optical bandpass filters composed of low loss dielectric metasurface layers sandwiched between two distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs). The two DBRs form a Fabry-P\'erot resonator…
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Spatially structured beams have emerged as a promising technology for enhancing spectrum efficiency (SE) in sixth-generation (6G) networks. However, structured beam schemes based on fixed-position antennas (FPAs) fail to fully exploit the…