{"title":"OAM Backhaul Link Supporting 1 Tbps Over 1-km Transmission Based on Cassegrain Antennas","authors":"Qiuli Wu;Chao Zhang","doi":"10.1109/TAP.2025.3553394","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams present an inverted cone form and divergence. Consequently, the transmission distance and rate of the backhaul link based on OAM are severely limited. On the other hand, in the upcoming beyond fifth-generation (B5G) mobile communications and sixth-generation (6G) mobile communications, the demand for communication distance between the macro base station (BS) and the self-backhaul small cell (SBSC) ranges from hundreds of meters to several kilometers, and the demand for transmission rate ranges between 100 Gb/s and 1 Tbps. The OAM beam generated by the uniform circular array (UCA) exhibits inverted cone divergence. The difference in divergence angle between different modes can be two times or even more than three times. This makes it impossible to achieve long-distance and high-speed transmission simultaneously. In order to construct a 1-km and Tbps OAM transmission system, this article proposes a symmetric OAM transmission scheme using cassegrain antennas (CAs). The CAs can converge the OAM beams and achieve high antenna gain. When the antennas are strictly coaxially aligned, backhaul links supporting a 1-km transmission distance and a 1-Tbps transmission rate are constructed. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the backhaul link transmission scheme using symmetric CAs is verified through mathematical models, simulations, and experiments.","PeriodicalId":13102,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"73 7","pages":"4829-4839"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10942481/","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams present an inverted cone form and divergence. Consequently, the transmission distance and rate of the backhaul link based on OAM are severely limited. On the other hand, in the upcoming beyond fifth-generation (B5G) mobile communications and sixth-generation (6G) mobile communications, the demand for communication distance between the macro base station (BS) and the self-backhaul small cell (SBSC) ranges from hundreds of meters to several kilometers, and the demand for transmission rate ranges between 100 Gb/s and 1 Tbps. The OAM beam generated by the uniform circular array (UCA) exhibits inverted cone divergence. The difference in divergence angle between different modes can be two times or even more than three times. This makes it impossible to achieve long-distance and high-speed transmission simultaneously. In order to construct a 1-km and Tbps OAM transmission system, this article proposes a symmetric OAM transmission scheme using cassegrain antennas (CAs). The CAs can converge the OAM beams and achieve high antenna gain. When the antennas are strictly coaxially aligned, backhaul links supporting a 1-km transmission distance and a 1-Tbps transmission rate are constructed. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the backhaul link transmission scheme using symmetric CAs is verified through mathematical models, simulations, and experiments.
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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation includes theoretical and experimental advances in antennas, including design and development, and in the propagation of electromagnetic waves, including scattering, diffraction, and interaction with continuous media; and applications pertaining to antennas and propagation, such as remote sensing, applied optics, and millimeter and submillimeter wave techniques