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Fluid antenna system (FAS) as a new version of reconfigurable antenna technologies promoting shape and position flexibility, has emerged as an exciting and possibly transformative technology for wireless communications systems. FAS…

Fluid antennas (FAs) and movable antennas (MAs) have drawn increasing attention in wireless communications recently due to their ability to create favorable channel conditions via local antenna movement within a confined region. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Xin Wei , Weidong Mei , Dong Wang , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen

Polarization maintaining (PM) fibers are meant to maintain linear polarization along a preferred axis. A PM fiber can be seen as the fiber version of a very high order waveplate, designed with different refractive indices along two…

Beamforming is a signal processing technique where an array of antenna elements can be steered to transmit and receive radio signals in a specific direction. The usage of millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies and multiple input multiple…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Snehal Bhayani , Praneeth Susarla , S. S. Krishna Chaitanya Bulusu , Olli Silven , Markku Juntti , Janne Heikkila

We show that polarization states of electromagnetic waves can be manipulated easily using a single thin uniaxial crystal plate. By performing a rotational transformation of the coordinates and controlling the thickness of the plate, we can…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-03 Xiaohu Wu , Ceji Fu

Metasurfaces offered great opportunities to control electromagnetic (EM) waves, but currently available meta-devices typically work either in pure reflection or pure transmission mode, leaving half of EM space completely unexplored. Here,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Tong Cai , GuangMing Wang , ShiWei Tang , HeXiu Xu , JingWen Duan , HuiJie Guo , FuXin Guan , ShuLin Sun , Qiong He , Lei Zhou

Wirelessly-powered sensor networks (WPSNs) are becoming increasingly important in different monitoring applications. We consider a WPSN where a multiple-antenna base station, which is dedicated for energy transmission, sends pilot signals…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Rong Du , Hossein Shokri Ghadikolaei , Carlo Fischione

Control of the polarization state of light is essential for many technologies, but is often limited by weak light-matter interactions that necessitate long device path lengths or significantly reduce the signal intensity. Here, we…

Context: Radio astronomical receivers are now expanding their frequency range to cover large (octave) fractional bandwidths for sensitivity and spectral flexibility, which makes the design of good analogue circular polarizers challenging.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Koyel Das , A. L. Roy , R. Keller , G. Tuccari

Enormous fluid antenna systems (E-FAS), the system concept that utilizes position reconfigurability in the large scale, have emerged as a new architectural paradigm where intelligent surfaces are repurposed from passive smart reflectors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , Masoud Kaveh , Wee Kiat New , Chan-Byoung Chae , Lajos Hanzo

Modern wireless systems are envisioned to employ antenna architectures that not only transmit and receive electromagnetic (EM) waves, but also intentionally reflect and possibly transform incident EM waves. In this paper, we propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Torben Kölle , Alexander Stutz-Tirri , Christoph Studer

Polarized neutrons are a powerful probe to investigate magnetism in condensed matter on length scales from single atomic distances to micrometers. With the ongoing advancement of neutron optics, that allow to transport beams with increased…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-02 Jochen Stahn , Artur Glavic

Movable antennas offer new potential for wireless communication by introducing degrees of freedom in antenna positioning, which has recently been explored for improving sum rates. In this paper, we aim to fully leverage the capabilities of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Songjie Yang , Zihang Wan , Yue Xiu , Boyu Ning , Yong Li , Yuenwei Liu , Chau Yuen

Multiple-antenna technologies are evolving towards larger aperture sizes, extremely high frequencies, and innovative antenna types. This evolution is fostering the emergence of near-field communications (NFC) in future wireless systems.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-04 Yuanwei Liu , Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Jiaqi Xu , Xidong Mu , A. Lee Swindlehurst

The polarization degree of freedom is an inherent feature of plane waves propagating in an isotropic homogeneous medium. The miniaturization of optical systems leads to the high localization of electromagnetic waves, but also to the loss of…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-28 Rui Li , Sergey Polevoy , Vladimir Tuz , Oleh Yermakov

Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) are widely regarded as a cornerstone of the emerging low-altitude economy, yet they face significant challenges, including rapidly varying channels, diverse functional requirements, and dynamic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Wenchao Liu , Xuhui Zhang , Chunjie Wang , Jinke Ren , Weijie Yuan , Changsheng You

Wavefront shaping is a technique for directing light through turbid media. The theoretical aspects of wavefront shaping are well understood, and under near-ideal experimental conditions, accurate predictions for the expected signal…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-01 Bahareh Mastiani , Daniël W. S. Cox , Ivo M. Vellekoop

Recently, the concept of holographic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is emerging as one of the promising technologies beyond massive MIMO. Many challenges need to be addressed to bring this novel idea into practice, including…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Tengjiao Wang , Wei Han , Zhimeng Zhong , Jiyong Pang , Guohua Zhou , Shaobo Wang , Qiang Li

The high directionality of wave propagation at millimeter-wave (mmWave) carrier frequencies results in only a small number of significant transmission paths between user equipments and the basestation (BS). This sparse nature of wave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Sueda Taner , Christoph Studer

Wave polarization contains valuable information for electromagnetic signal processing and the ability to manipulate it can be extremely useful in photonic devices. In this work, we propose designs comprised of one of the emerging and…