An Analytical Range-Angle Dependent Beam Focusing Model for Terahertz Linear Antenna Array

TL;DR

This paper develops an analytical model for near-field beam focusing in Terahertz linear antenna arrays, showing how system parameters influence the focused spatial region and providing closed-form solutions for system design.

Contribution

It introduces a novel geometric approach to characterize the near-field focusing region as a rotated ellipse and derives closed-form expressions for coverage and system parameter effects.

Findings

The focusing region is a rotated ellipse in range-angle coordinates.

Closed-form expressions for the focusing coverage are derived.

Carrier frequency offsets can be analytically designed to control beam focusing.

Abstract

This paper considers a scenario in which the Terahertz (THz) transmitter equipped with a linear antenna array wishes to focus its beam to a desired spatial region in the array near-field. The goal is to compute the achievable spatial region and determine how the system parameters such as the carrier frequency, the array dimension and the user's location affect its beam focusing performance. First, based on a theorem from analytic geometry, we show that the achievable focusing spatial region constitutes a rotated ellipse, with the x and y coordinates denoting the range and angle, respectively. In this way, the determination of the spatial region is reduced to a problem of deriving the coverage of an ellipse. The achievable coverage is then obtained in closed form, and the construction of carrier frequency offsets that can analytically control the beam focusing performance is provided. Numerical results validate the theoretical findings and demonstrate the performance of the proposed method.