An Anti-Interference Demultiplexing Method for Electromagnetic Bessel Beams Carrying Orbital Angular Momentum

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new method to accurately detect electromagnetic beams carrying orbital angular momentum, even in noisy environments.

Contribution

The novel method combines smoothed dynamic mode decomposition with moving average to improve noise resilience in OAM beam analysis.

Findings

Smoothed DMD outperforms standard DMD in low signal-to-noise ratio conditions.

The method works well with partial aperture detection and non-orthogonal OAM modes.

It is suitable for real-world applications in wireless communication and sensing.

Abstract

This work presents a simple yet effective anti-interference demultiplexing method for electromagnetic Bessel beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM), based on smoothed dynamic mode decomposition (smoothed DMD). The method combines conventional dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) with a moving average pre-processing step to enhance its noise resilience. By modeling the azimuthally sampled field as a spatial–temporal signal, smoothed DMD enables accurate extraction of OAM topological charges even under low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions. Numerical results demonstrate its superior anti-interference performance compared to standard DMD. Moreover, the proposed approach is applicable to scenarios with partial aperture detection and does not rely on the orthogonality of OAM modes, making it particularly suitable for real-world, imperfect conditions. This method offers a robust solution for OAM beam analysis in next-generation wireless communication and sensing applications.

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