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This paper describes an integer multiplier for the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light through the parallel implementation of multiple circular-sector transformations, whereby the cross-sectional circular shape of the OAM mode is…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-18 Satoru Takashima , Hirokazu Kobayashi , Katsushi Iwashita

Structured light beams, in particular those carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM), have gained a lot of attention due to their potential for enlarging the transmission capabilities of communication systems. However, the use of…

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing provides an efficient method to improve data-carrying capacity in various quantum communication protocols. It is a precondition to distribute OAM multiplexed quantum resources in quantum channels…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-31 Li Zeng , Rong Ma , Hong Wen , Meihong Wang , Jun Liu , Zhongzhong Qin , Xiaolong Su

We present a tunable liquid crystal device that converts pure orbital angular momentum eigenmodes of a light beam into equal-weight superpositions of opposite-handed eigenmodes and vice versa. For specific input states, the device may thus…

Communication using orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes has recently received a considerable interest in free space optical (FSO) communications. Propagating OAM modes through free space may be subject to atmospheric turbulence (AT)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-08 El-Mehdi Amhoud , Marwa Chafii , Ahmad Nimr , Gerhard Fettweis

Spatiotemporal toroidal orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams are a developing class of spatiotemporal beams which have key applications within quantum physics, metrology, imaging and optical manipulation. However, the full realization of…

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…

Spatial mode (de)multiplexing of orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams is a promising solution to address future bandwidth issues, but the rapidly increasing divergence with the mode order severely limits the practically addressable number…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-19 Zhensong Wan , Yijie Shen , Zhaoyang Wang , Zijian Shi , Qiang Liu , Xing Fu

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) has aroused a widespread interest in many fields, especially in telecommunications due to its potential for unleashing new capacity in the severely congested spectrum of commercial communication systems. Beams…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-12-19 Rui Chen , Hong Zhou , Marco Moretti , Xiaodong Wang , Jiandong Li

Optical modes with different orbital angular momentums (OAMs) per photon may be sorted by Mach-Zehnder interferometers incorporated with beam rotators, without resorting to OAM mode converters.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Haiqing Wei , Xin Xue

Light carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been shown to be of use in a disparate range of fields ranging from astronomy to optical trapping, and as a promising new dimension for multiplexing signals in optical communications and…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-07 Shibiao Wei , Stuart K. Earl , Xiao-Cong Yuan , Shan Shan Kou , Jiao Lin

Structured light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM), such as Laguerre-Gaussian modes, are promising tools for high-capacity optical communications and advanced biomedical imaging. However, multiple scattering in turbid media…

Structured light, optical fields engineered in their spatial, polarization, or phase degrees of freedom, has become a key resource across advanced communication, sensing, imaging, and quantum technologies. Optical fibers nowadays play an…

The increasing amount of data exchange requires higher-capacity optical communication links. Mode division multiplexing (MDM) is considered as a promising technology to support the higher data throughput. In an MDM system, the mode…

In this work we demonstrate the existence of orbital angular momentum (OAM) bright and dark supermodes in a three-evanescently coupled cylindrical waveguides system. Bright and dark supermodes are characterized by their coupling and…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-21 A. Turpin , G. Pelegrí , J. Polo , J. Mompart , V. Ahufinger

A light beam carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) is characterized by a helical phase-front that winds around the center of the beam. These beams have unique properties that have found numerous applications. In the field of data…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-13 Julian Schulz , Georg von Freymann

To increase system capacity of underwater optical communications, we employ the spatial domain to simultaneously transmit multiple orthogonal spatial beams, each carrying an independent data channel. In this paper, we multiplex and transmit…

A high fidelity amplification of beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) is very crucial for OAM multiplexing and other OAM-based applications. Here, we report the first study of stimulated Brillouin amplification (SBA) for OAM beams,…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-11 Wei Gao , Chunyuan Mu , Hongwei Li , Yuqiang Yang , Zhihan Zhu

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light has recently attracted a growing interest as a new degree of freedom in order to increase the information capacity of today optical networks both for free-space and optical fiber transmission.…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-05 Gianluca Ruffato , Michele Massari , Filippo Romanato

A novel optical device is designed and fabricated in order to overcome the limits of the traditional sorter based on log-pol optical transformation for the demultiplexing of optical beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM). The…