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Future wireless networks, deploying thousands of antenna elements, may operate in the radiative near-field (NF), enabling spatial multiplexing across both angle and range domains. Sparse arrays have the potential to achieve comparable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Ahmed Hussain , Asmaa Abdallah , Abdulkadir Celik , Emil Björnson , Ahmed M. Eltawil

The advent of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology has provided new opportunities for capacity improvement via strategic antenna deployment, especially when the near-field effect is pronounced due to antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Shicong Liu , Xianghao Yu , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

Adaptive optics methods have long been used to perform complex light shaping at the output of a multimode fiber (MMF), with the specific aim of controlling the emitted beam in the near-field. Gaining control of other emission properties,…

We implement an integrated multi-electrode array on a silicon-nitride-based photonic integrated circuit for ex-vivo retinal characterization via optical stimulation. The interrogation beam formers, based on curved grating emitters and…

This paper presents the design and implementation of a compact, cost-effective phased array antenna system. It is capable of real-time beam-steering for dynamic target-tracking applications. The system employs a 4$\times$4 rectangular…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Adham Saad , Aya Sherif Nassef , Mahmoud Mohamed Elshahed , Mohamed Ismail Ahmed

Employing large antenna arrays and utilizing large bandwidth have the potential of bringing very high data rates to future wireless communication systems. However, this brings the system into the near-field regime and also makes the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Yu Zhang , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Extremely large-scale array (XL-array) has emerged as one promising technology to improve the spectral efficiency and spatial resolution of future sixth generation (6G) wireless systems.The upsurge in the antenna number antennas renders…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Cong Zhou , Chenyu Wu , Changsheng You , Shuo Shi

The retrodirective antenna array is considered as a mechanism to enable target tracking of a power receiver for long range wireless power transfer (WPT) due to its simplicity in implementation using only analog circuits. By installing the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Charleston Dale M. Ambatali , Shinichi Nakasuka , Bo Yang , Naoki Shinohara

Ultra-high data rates with low-power consumption wireless communications and low-complexity receivers is one of the key requirements for the next 6-th Generation (6G) of communication networks. Sub-Terahertz (SubTHz) frequency bands can…

This paper proposes a reconfigurable bidirectional array antenna with high-efficiency radiations and flexible beam-switching capability by employing a novel transmit-reflect switchable metasurface (TRSM). To realize the electromagnetic (EM)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Fan Qin , Jinyang Bi , Jiao Ma , Chao Gu , Hailin Zhang , Wenchi Cheng , Steven Gao

The FR3 band has emerged as the major focus of 6G wireless research. FR3 cellular operation presents the challenge of extreme bandwidth combined with physically large antenna arrays. In this regime, conventional phase-shift beamforming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Tyler Ikehara , Ibrahim Pehlivan , Danijela Cabric , Thomas L. Marzetta

Time-reversal (TR) refocusing of waves is one of fundamental principles in wave physics. Using the TR approach, "Time-reversal mirrors" can physically create a time-reversed wave that exactly refocus back, in space and time, to its original…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-23 G. Ducrozet , M. Fink , A. Chabchoub

The concept of Wireless Network-on-Chip (WNoC) has emerged as a potential solution to address the escalating communication demands of modern computing systems due to its low-latency, versatility, and reconfigurability. However, for WNoC to…

Far-field shaping of small antennas is a challenge and the realizations of non-dipole radiation of small to intermediate sized antennas are difficult. Here we examine the antenna bandwidth cost associated with such constraints, and in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-28 Shuai Shi , Lei Wang , B. L. G. Jonsson

We characterize three near-field sub-regions for phased array antennas by elaborating on the boundaries {\it Fraunhofer}, {\it radial-focal}, and {\it non-radiating} distances. The {\it Fraunhofer distance} which is the boundary between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 Mehdi Monemi , Sirous Bahrami , Mehdi Rasti , Matti Latva-aho

This letter develops a novel transmit beamforming (BF) design for canceling self-interference (SI) in analog in-band full-duplex phased arrays. Our design maximizes transmit BF gain in a desired direction while simultaneously reducing SI…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-26 Ao Liu , Ian P. Roberts , Taneli Riihonen , Weixing Sheng

Optical antennas are a fundamental element in optical phased arrays (OPA) and free-space optical interconnects. An outstanding challenge in optical antenna design lies in achieving high radiation efficiency, ultra-compact footprint and…

The concept of time reversal (TR) of scalar wave is reexamined from basic principles. Five different time reversal mirrors (TRM) are introduced and their relations are analyzed. For the boundary behavior, it is shown that for paraxial wave…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Albert C. Fannjiang

Achieving low-latency time-reversal of broadband radiofrequency signals is crucial for reliable communications in dynamic, uncontrolled environments. However, existing approaches are either digitally assisted -- making broadband extension…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-07 Thomas Llauze , Anne Louchet-Chauvet

We present a deep neural network-enabled method to accelerate near-field (NF) antenna measurement. We develop a Near-field Super-resolution Network (NFS-Net) to reconstruct significantly undersampled near-field data as high-resolution data,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-04 Yuchen Gu , Hai-Han Sun , Daniel W. van der Weide