Abstract
Integrating the wireless power transfer (WPT) technology into the wireless communication system has been important for operational cost saving and power-hungry problem solving of electronic devices. In this paper, we propose a resonant beam simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (RB-SWIPT) system, which utilizes a gain medium and two retro-reflecting surfaces to enhance and retro-reflect energy, and allows devices to recharge their batteries and exchange information from the resonant beam wirelessly. To reveal the SWIPT mechanism and evaluate the SWIPT performance, we establish an analytical end-To-end (E$\mathscr{2}$E) transmission model based on a modular approach and the electromagnetic field propagation. Then, the intra-cavity power intensity distribution, transmission loss, output power, and E$\mathscr{2}$E efficiency can be obtained. The numerical evaluation illustrates that the exemplary RB-SWIPT system can provide about 4.20 W electric power and 12.41 bps/Hz spectral efficiency, and shorter transmission distance or larger retro-reflecting surface size can lead to higher E$\mathscr{2}$E efficiency. The RB-SWIPT presents a new way for high-power, long-range WPT, and high-rate communication.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 9457167 |
Pages (from-to) | 3642-3652 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing |
Volume | 69 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Manuscript received October 16, 2020; revised May 12, 2021; accepted June 9, 2021. Date of publication June 16, 2021; date of current version July 2, 2021. The Associate Editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and approving it for publication was Dr. Yili Xia. The work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China under Grant 2020YFB2103900 and Grant 2020YFB2103902. It was also supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61771344 and 62071334. (Corresponding author: Qingwen Liu.) Wen Fang, Qingwen Liu, Mingqing Liu, and Mengyuan Xu are with the College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200000, China (e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]).
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Keywords
- Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer
- end-To-end transmission model
- resonant beam
- retro-reflecting surface