Waveguide Non-Fundamental Wave Mode Induction
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing demand for higher bandwidth in communication networks due to widespread use of smartphones and data-intensive services poses challenges for traditional wireless infrastructure, particularly in providing efficient and reliable data access across smaller areas.
Innovation Solution
A guided wave communication system that utilizes electromagnetic waves bound to transmission media such as wires or dielectric materials, allowing for efficient data transmission without the need for an electrical return path, and employs coupling devices to launch and extract guided waves at millimeter-wave frequencies.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional wireless infrastructure is used to provide broadband access, then coverage area is large, but bandwidth capacity is insufficient for increasing data demands
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the communication infrastructure into macrocells for wide coverage and small cells (microcells, picocells) for high-capacity access points. This segmentation allows the system to simultaneously provide both large coverage areas and high bandwidth capacity by distributing multiple small cell access points throughout the coverage area.
2Productivity
If electromagnetic waves are transmitted through traditional waveguides, then fundamental wave modes are supported, but higher bandwidth and multiple modes cannot be achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the geometric parameters of the waveguide, specifically using a rectangular cross-section with dimensions designed to support multiple non-fundamental wave modes at millimeter-wave frequencies. By adjusting the width and height of the waveguide cross-section, the system can support higher bandwidth transmission through multiple propagating modes without requiring complex structures.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution enables reliable and efficient data transmission with reduced propagation loss over longer distances, supporting increased bandwidth demands and flexible deployment in various environments.
Implementation Method 1
generating, by a waveguide system comprising a plurality of circuits, each with a radiating element, first electromagnetic waves
Implementation Method 2
directing, by the radiating elements of the plurality of circuits, instances of the first electromagnetic waves to an interface of a transmission medium to induce propagation of second electromagnetic waves
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for generating first electromagnetic waves and directing instances of the first electromagnetic waves to an interface of a transmission medium to induce propagation of second electromagnetic waves having a dominant non-fundamental wave mode. Other embodiments are disclosed.