Abstract

In this paper, a water antenna has been designed to generate tunable orbital angular momentum (OAM) vortex wave. With a revisiting theoretical analysis about radiation characteristic of the shorted ring patch fed by two probes, a frequency dependent single shorted ring water antenna is designed. With the increase of the operating frequency, the single-ring water antenna can radiate the OAM waves with the changeable modes. Furthermore, a dual shorted ring water antenna is proposed. With a tunable feeding network, the OAM waves with the reconfigurable modes including the l = 1, l = 2 and mixed modes can be radiated by adjusting ON/OFF states of the PIN diode. The prototype of the dual-ring water antenna is fabricated and measured. Good agreement between the simulation and the measurement demonstrates that the overlapped bandwidth for three states covers 2.35~2.55 GHz with a good mode purity.

Highlights

  • With rapid development of wireless communication system, improvement of spectral efficiency and system capacity has been facing serious challenges owing to the limited frequency spectrum

  • OPERATION MECHANISUM OF orbital angular momentum (OAM) VORTEX WAVE In order to demonstrate the operation mechanism of the proposed water antenna, we first studied the radiation performance of a shorted circular ring patch antenna with an inner radius a and an outer radius b, which is fed by a coaxial probe at (ρ0, 0) and fabricated on a substrate with permittivity of ε1 and thickness of h

  • In the State III, the OAM wave with the mixed mode is achieved in the frequency band of 2.35∼2.55 GHz

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Summary

Introduction

With rapid development of wireless communication system, improvement of spectral efficiency and system capacity has been facing serious challenges owing to the limited frequency spectrum. A water antenna has been proposed to generate the OAM vortex wave with the reconfigurable modes in a frequency band.

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