SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM (OAM) DIVERSE SIGNAL PROCESSING USING CLASSICAL BEAMS
First Claim
1. An apparatus, comprising:
- a source that generates an electromagnetic beam in an initial state having zero orbital angular momentum (OAM);
a first diffractive element that converts the beam into a source beam having a prescribed source state with one or more non-zero OAM components;
a tag that reflects the source beam to control the non-zero OAM components in a return beam; and
a receiver that measures the OAM components of the return beam and compares the measured OAM components to the nonzero OAM components of the prescribed source state to identify the tag.
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Abstract
The present invention describes a system and method of OAM diverse signal processing using classical beams for applications in which OAM signal character is controlled such as optical tagging and applications in which OAM signal character is not controlled such as clutter mitigation and interference cancellation for target detection, identification etc. This is accomplished by transmitting a source beam having a prescribed state with one or more non-zero OAM components, reflecting the beam off a ‘tagged’ or ‘untagged’ target and receiving the return beam in the direct return path to measure the one or more OAM components to identify the target. OAM processing provides additional degrees of processing freedom to greatly enhance the processing capabilities to detect and identify both ‘tagged’ and ‘untagged’ targets.
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35 Claims
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
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a source that generates an electromagnetic beam in an initial state having zero orbital angular momentum (OAM); a first diffractive element that converts the beam into a source beam having a prescribed source state with one or more non-zero OAM components; a tag that reflects the source beam to control the non-zero OAM components in a return beam; and a receiver that measures the OAM components of the return beam and compares the measured OAM components to the nonzero OAM components of the prescribed source state to identify the tag. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. An apparatus, comprising:
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a source that generates an electromagnetic beam in an initial state having zero orbital angular momentum (OAM); a first diffractive element that converts the beam into a source beam that is transmitted along a source path, said source beam having a prescribed source state with one or more non-zero OAM components; a tag having a second diffractive element that reflects the source beam to transform the non-zero OAM components to a different prescribed return state in a return beam; and a receiver in a direct return path that approximately retraces the source path, said receiver measures the OAM components of the return beam and with knowledge of the prescribed source state of the source beam and the transformation implemented by the OAM tag compares the measured OAM to the non-zero OAM components of the prescribed source state to identify the tag. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29)
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30. An apparatus, comprising:
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a source that generates an electromagnetic beam in an initial state having zero orbital angular momentum (OAM); a diffractive element that converts the beam into a source beam having a prescribed source state with one or more non-zero OAM components, said source beam reflected off a target in a background to produce a return beam in which the OAM components are altered differently by the target and background; and a receiver in the directed reflected path of the return beam that measures the one or more OAM components of the return beam and processes the alterations of the OAM components from the prescribed source state to discriminate the target from the background. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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