Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a receiver of orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing based communication may receive, from a transmitter of the OAM multiplexing based communication, a plurality of reference signals corresponding to a plurality of aperture pairs, wherein a reference signal of the plurality of reference signals corresponds to an OAM mode of a corresponding aperture pair; transmit, to the transmitter, a feedback message comprising beamforming information based at least in part on the plurality of reference signals; and receive, from the transmitter, a plurality of data streams that are beamformed based at least in part on the beamforming information. Numerous other aspects are provided.