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Employing large antenna arrays is a key characteristic of millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz communication systems. Due to the hardware constraints and the lack of channel knowledge, codebook based beamforming/combining is normally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Yu Zhang , Tawfik Osman , Ahmed Alkhateeb

In this paper, we studied the problem of beam alignment for millimeter wave (mmWave) communications, in which we assume a hybrid analog and digital beamforming structure is employed at the transmitter (i.e. base station), and an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xingjian Li , Jun Fang , Huiping Duan , Zhi Chen , Hongbin Li

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications is considered as a key enabler towards the realization of next-generation wireless networks, due to the abundance of available spectrum at mmWave frequencies. However, mmWave suffers from high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Nariman Torkzaban , Mohammad A. Amir Khojastepour

Lightwave pulse shaping in the picosecond regime has remained unaddressed because it resides beyond the limits of state-of-the-art techniques, either due to its inherently narrow spectral content or fundamental speed limitations in…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-10 Randy Lemons , Jack Hirschman , Hao Zhang , Charles Durfee , Sergio Carbajo

We demonstrate a novel beam pattern measurement method for the side lobe characterization of cosmic microwave background telescopes. The method employs a power-variable artificial microwave source under feedback control from the detector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 Haruaki Hirose , Masaya Hasegawa , Daisuke Kaneko , Taketo Nagasaki , Ryota Takaku , Tijmen de Haan , Satoru Takakura , Takuro Fujino

Reducing the aperture size is a conventional technique to obtain enhanced image resolution in optics but it is obscured by depleting illumination. Polarization coded apertures (PCAs) can be employed to circumvent this critical artifact. We…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-11 Vipin Tiwari , Nandan S. Bisht

In full-duplex millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems, the effects of beam squint and the frequency-selectivity of self-interference exacerbate over wide bandwidths. This complicates the use of beamforming to cancel self-interference when…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-07 Sungho Cho , Ian P. Roberts

This paper addresses a reflection-type dual-band 2-bit coding metasurface (CM) design to achieve the dual-band functionalities in two different operating bands, independently. We are particularly interested to control linearly-polarized…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-20 Hamza Ahmad Madni , Shahid Iqbal , Shuo Liu , Lei Zhang , Tie Jun Cui

An antenna coding approach for exploiting the spatial multiplexing capability of pixel antennas is proposed. This approach can leverage additional degrees of freedom in the beamspace domain to transmit more information streams. Pixel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Zixiang Han , Shanpu Shen , Ross Murch

As data rates demands are exploding, 5G will soon rely on mmWaves that offer much higher bandwidths. Yet at these frequencies, attenuation and diffraction of waves require point to point communications with beamforming base stations that…

In this letter, we design passive beamforming in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multiple-user wireless network. Two different scenarios are considered, namely, multicasting and multi-user downlink transmission. We optimize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Ke-Wen Huang , Hui-Ming Wang

Recently, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) communications are considered in the wireless community. This paper aims to design a beam-based multiple-access strategy for this new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

Broad beam beamforming (BF) design in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) can be convenient for initial access, synchronization, and sensing capabilities in cellular networks by avoiding overheads of sweeping methods while making…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Ahmet Kaplan , Diana P. M. Osorio , Erik G. Larsson

Controlling the in-band co-polarization scattering of the antenna while maintaining its radiation performance is crucial for the low observable platform. Thus, this paper studies the in-band co-polarization scattering beam scanning of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Binchao Zhang , Fan Yang , Shenheng Xu , Maokun Li , Cheng Jin

The emerging 5G and future 6G technologies are envisioned to provide higher bandwidths and coverage using millimeter wave (mmWave) and sub-Terahertz (THz) frequency bands. The growing demand for higher data rates using these bands can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Ashwini Pondeycherry Ganesh , Wahab Khawaja , Ozgur Ozdemir , Ismail Guvenc , Hiroyuki Nomoto , Yasuaki Ide

Multimode fibers provide a promising platform for realizing high-power laser amplifiers with suppressed nonlinearities and instabilities. The potential degradation of optical beam quality has been a major concern for highly multimode fiber…

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications have been considered as a key technology for next generation cellular systems and Wi-Fi networks because of its advances in providing orders-of-magnitude wider bandwidth than current wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Zihuan Wang , Ming Li , Qian Liu , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Recently, the investigation of metasurface has been extended to wave control through exploiting nonlinearity. Among all of the ways to achieve tunable metasurfaces with multiplexed performances, nonlinearity is one of the promising choices.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Mehdi Kiani , Ali Momeni , Majid Tayarani , Can Ding

This paper investigates the passive beamforming and information transfer (PBIT) technique for the multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with the aid of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), where the RIS enhances the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Wenjing Yan , Xiaojun Yuan , Zhen-Qing He , Xiaoyan Kuai

Optical limiters are designed to transmit low intensity light, while blocking the light with excessively high intensity. A typical passive limiter absorbs excessive electromagnetic energy, which can cause its overheating and destruction. We…

Optics · Physics 2013-09-11 Eleana Makri , Hamidreza Ramezani , Tsampikos Kottos , Ilya Vitebskiy