Structured light, especially beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM), has gained
much interest due to its unique amplitude and phase structures. In terms of communication …

Orbital angular momentum (OAM), which describes tailoring the spatial physical dimension
of light waves into a helical phase structure, has given rise to many applications in optical …

Quantum cryptography is arguably the fastest growing area in quantum information science.
Novel theoretical protocols are designed on a regular basis, security proofs are constantly …

Twisted photons can be used as alphabets to encode information beyond one bit per single
photon. This ability offers great potential for quantum information tasks, as well as for the …

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 …

With the ever-increasing demand for data and the radio frequency spectrum becoming
congested, free space optics (FSO) may find a niche for situations where fiber is too …

Structured light is routinely used in free-space optical communication channels, both
classical and quantum, where information is encoded in the spatial structure of the mode for …

Vector modes are spatial modes that have spatially inhomogeneous states of polarization,
such as, radial and azimuthal polarization. In this work, the spatially inhomogeneous states …

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 …

Since their first introduction in 2006, q-plates have found a constantly increasing number of
uses in diverse contexts, ranging from fundamental research on complex structured light …