Integrating optical intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) into aerial platforms, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has been proposed to relax the line-of-sight (LoS) constraint, extend coverage, and enhance deployment flexibility of free space optical (FSO) systems. However, misalignment errors induced by the UAV hovering, in both position and orientation, may degrade connectivity and impair the end-to-end channel quality. In this paper, we develop novel expressions for the electric fields incident on and reflected by an optical IRS, based on the Huygens-Fresnel principle. The resulting expressions are applicable for any combination of incident and reflected propagation directions. Building on this framework, we derive a closed-form statistical channel model that captures the geometric and misalignment losses of an FSO link assisted by a UAV-mounted IRS in the presence of random UAV fluctuations. In particular, we develop a statistical model for the beam misalignment at the receiver lens, assuming Gaussian fluctuations in both the UAV position and orientation. The proposed analytical model is validated through Monte Carlo (MC) simulations and is further used to provide practical design guidelines regarding the optimal placement of the UAV-mounted IRS for the minimization of the outage probability.
Ferdaous Tarhouni, V. Papanikolaou, L. Cottatellucci et al.· 0 citations
This letter investigates transmit-power minimization for multiuser pinching-antenna system (PAS) from a coupled-mode-theory (CMT)-aware perspective. Existing CMT-based pinching antenna (PA) studies reveal coupling-induced power exchange and radiation behavior, but these effects have not been fully embedded into system-level multi-PA channel modeling and beamforming design. We therefore develop a directional and loss-aware channel model that captures coupling-length-dependent power extraction and the downstream guided-power reduction caused by in-waveguide attenuation and upstream extraction. The model shows that PA design should account for both directional radiation and guided-power evolution, rather than only propagation distance or maximum coupling considered in most existing works. Based on this channel model, we formulate a quality-of-service (QoS)-constrained power minimization problem for continuous PA positioning and finite-codebook activation. For each candidate coupling length, the element-wise positioning and BPSO-based activation use a closed-form zero-forcing (ZF) power metric for low-complexity configuration ranking, thereby avoiding repeated beamforming optimization while excluding rank-deficient candidates and ordering the remaining ones. The selected configuration for each coupling length is then evaluated by optimal fixed-configuration QoS beamforming. Simulation results demonstrate that CMT-aware modeling fundamentally reshapes the preferred PA configuration, maximum coupling is not always power-efficient due to suppressed downstream PA contributions, and finite-codebook activation combined with ZF-based ranking provides a balance between transmit-power performance and deployment complexity.
Chuang Luo, Gui Zhou, V. Papanikolaou et al.· 0 citations
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