Effectiveness evaluation of polarization in OAM multiplexing

Abstract

This paper investigates the system capacity of polarized orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing by comparing it with OAM multiplexing without polarization for the same number of antenna elements. Since the same number of antenna elements is assumed for both approaches, their performances can be compared under the same number of simultaneous OAM streams, thereby allowing the effectiveness of polarization on UCA-based OAM multiplexing to be examined. Numerical results, obtained through computer simulations, provide the mode selectivity and system capacity with respect to link distance and carrier frequency.