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Any practical experiment utilising the innate D-dimensional entanglement of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) state space of photons is subject to the modal capacity of the detection system. We show that given such a constraint, the number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Romero , D. Giovannini , S. Franke-Anold , S. M. Barnett , M. J. Padgett

This work presents an analytical framework for modeling a detected orbital angular momentum (OAM) spectrum of an optical beam subject to tilt and lateral displacement. Firstly, we demonstrate that both types of misalignment generate OAM…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-15 Arttu Nieminen , Rizwana Ahmad , Harald Haas , Humeyra Caglayan

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…

The free-space optical (FSO) communication links with orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing have been demonstrated that they can largely enhance the systems' capacity without a corresponding increase in spectral bandwidth, but the…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-30 Shengmei Zhao , Bei Wang , Li Zhou , Longyan Gong , Wenwen Cheng , Yubo Sheng , Baoyu Zheng

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 orbital angular momentum (OAM) spatial degree of freedom of light has been widely explored in many applications, including telecommunications, quantum information and light-based micro-manipulation. The ability to separate and…

The angular momentum propagated by a beam of radiation has two contributions: spin angular momentum (SAM) and orbital angular momentum (OAM). SAM corresponds to wave polarisation, while OAM-carrying beams are characterized by a phase which…

The function to measure orbital angular momentum (OAM) distribution of vortex light is essential for OAM applications. Although there are lots of works to measure OAM modes, it is difficult to measure the power distribution of different OAM…

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) detection underpins almost all aspects of vortex beams' advances such as communication and quantum analogy. Conventional schemes are frustrated by low speed, complicated system, limited detection range. Here,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Hao Wang , Ziyu Zhan , Futai Hu , Yuan Meng , Zeqi Liu , Xing Fu , Qiang Liu

Characterizing the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of a vortex beam is critically important for OAM-encoded data transfer. However, in typical OAM-based applications where vortex beams transmit through diffusers, the accompanying scattering…

Vortex beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have been widely applied in various electromagnetic, optical, and quantum systems. A tailored OAM spectrum composed of several specific modes as expected holds a promise for expanding the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-08 Ling-Jun Yang , Sheng Sun , Wei E. I. Sha

Atmospheric turbulence causes fluctuations in the local refractive index of air that accumulatively disturb a wave's phase and amplitude distribution as it propagates. This impairs the effective range of laser weapons as well as the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-02 Chensheng Wu , Jonathan Ko , Christopher C. Davis

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) wireless communication technology is widely studied in recent literatures. But the atmospheric turbulence is rarely considered in analyzing the capacity of OAM-based millimeter wave (OAM-mmWave)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-11 Hanqiong Lou , Xiaohu Ge , Qiang Li

Adaptive optics (AO) is a technology in modern ground-based optical telescopes to compensate the wavefront distortions caused by atmospheric turbulence. One method that allows to retrieve information about the atmosphere from telescope data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Tapio Helin , Stefan Kindermann , Jonatan Lehtonen , Ronny Ramlau

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light provides an unbounded set of orthogonal modes for ultrahigh-capacity optical information processing. However, current OAM detection schemes typically rely on light interference or diffraction,…

We study the efficiency of adaptive optics (AO) correction for the free-space propagation of entangled photonic orbital-angular-momentum (OAM) qubit states, to reverse moderate atmospheric turbulence distortions. We show that AO can…

The present study extends the analysis of turbulence-affected beam statistics through a manifold-based statistical framework that unifies probabilistic modeling with geometric interpretation. The spatial intensity distributions, distorted…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-22 Shouvik Sadhukhan , C. S. Narayanamurthy

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…

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

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-10 El-Mehdi Amhoud , Abderrahmen Trichili , Boon S. Ooi , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

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