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The physics of orbital angular momentum (OAM) carrying light has been well-defined since the 1990s. Leveraging its physical phenomena has become a significant focus in various areas of research. For instance, OAM is applied in hybrid…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-08 Junsu Kim , Jiyeon Baek , Hyunchae Chun , Seung Ryong Park

We present a novel optical device to encode and decode two bits of information into different Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) states of a paraxial optical beam. Our device generates the four angular momentum states of order $\pm 2$ and…

Time, polarization, and wavelength multiplexing schemes have been used to satisfy the growing need of transmission capacity. Using space as a new dimension for communication systems has been recently suggested as a versatile technique to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Abderrahmen Trichili , Ki-Hong Park , Mourad Zghal , Boon S. Ooi , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Using no conventional measurements in position space, information extraction rates exceeding one bit per photon are achieved by employing high-dimensional correlated orbital angular momentum (OAM) states for object recognition. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-23 Casey A. Fitzpatrick , David S. Simon , Alexander V. Sergienko

Using orbital angular momentum (OAM) in the terahertz (THz) range provides a new degree of freedom for communication and imaging systems. This study presents a compact diffractive optical neural network designed to recognize discrete and…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-21 Wei Jia , Miguel Gomez , Steve Blair , Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez

The high-dimensional basis of orbital angular momentum (OAM) has several added and unique advantages for photonics quantum technologies compared to the polarization basis, which is only two-dimensional. However, one of the major roadblocks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 Suman Karan , Martin P. Van Exter , Anand K. Jha

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light holds great promise for applications in optical communication, super-resolution imaging, and high-dimensional quantum computing. However, the spatio-temporal coherence of the light source has been…

We introduce and experimentally demonstrate a method for measuring at the same time the mean and the variance of the photonic orbital angular momentum (OAM) distribution in any paraxial optical field, without passing through the acquisition…

Optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) provides an additional dimension for photons to carry information in high-capacity optical communication. Although the practical needs have intrigued the generations of miniaturized devices to…

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of photons, as a new fundamental degree of freedom, has excited a great diversity of interest, because of a variety of emerging applications. Arbitrarily tunable OAM has gained much attention, but its creation…

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of photons is carried upon the wave front of an optical vortex and is important in physics research due to its fundamental degree of freedom. As for the interaction with materials, the optical OAM was shown to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-09-17 Yoshiki Kohmura , Kei Sawada , Masaichiro Mizumaki , Kenji Ohwada , Tetsuya Ishikawa

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) at radio frequency (RF) provides a novel approach of multiplexing a set of orthogonal modes on the same frequency channel to achieve high spectrum efficiencies. However, there are still big challenges in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Rui Chen , Wen-Xuan Long , Xiaodong Wang , Jiandong Li

With wavelength tunability, free-electron lasers (FELs) are well-suited for generating orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams in a wide photon energy range. We report the first experimental demonstration of OAM beam generation using an…

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) has attracted much attention for radio vortex wireless communications due to the orthogonality among different OAM-modes. To maintain the orthogonality among different OAM modes at the receiver, the strict…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Wenchi Cheng , Haiyue Jing , Wei Zhang , Zan Li , Hailin Zhang

This work proposes the use of orbital angular momentum (OAM) waves to improve the performance of a computational imaging (CI) system. Specifically, in contrast to a solely frequency-diverse operation, leveraging multiple OAM waves leads to…

Light is the fundamental medium through which we perceive the world around us. In the modern era, light can not only be used in its raw form but can also be used as a versatile tool. Generally, light fields carry energy and momentum (both…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-18 Bikash K. Das , Camilo Granados , Marcelo F. Ciappina

Orbital angular momentum (OAM), which is considered as a novel way to achieve high capacity, has been attracted much attention recently. OAM signals emitted by uniform circular array (UCA) are widely regarded to go through the Bessel-form…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Haiyue Jing , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang , Hailin Zhang

The Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) of light has been at the center of several classical and quantum applications for imaging, information processing and communication. However, the complex structure inherent in OAM states makes their…

Wireless backhaul offers a more cost-effective, time-efficient, and reconfigurable solution than wired backhaul to connect the edge-computing cells to the core network. As the amount of transmitted data increases, the low-rank…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Yufei Zhao , Ziyang Wang , Yilong Lu , Yong Liang Guan

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) recognition of vortex beams is critical for applications ranging from optical communications to quantum technologies. However, conventional approaches designed for free-space propagation struggle when light…