Orbital angular momentum and beyond in free-space optical communications

J Wang, J Liu, S Li, Y Zhao, J Du, L Zhu - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
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 …

Twisted optical communications using orbital angular momentum

J Wang - Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 2019 - Springer
Angular momentum, a fundamental physical quantity, can be divided into spin angular
momentum (SAM) and orbital angular momentum (OAM) in electromagnetic waves. Helically …

Advances in communications using optical vortices

J Wang - Photonics Research, 2016 - opg.optica.org
An optical vortex having an isolated point singularity is associated with the spatial structure
of light waves. A polarization vortex (vector beam) with a polarization singularity has …

[HTML][HTML] Orbital angular momentum communications based on standard multi-mode fiber

J Wang, S Chen, J Liu - Apl Photonics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes, having unique properties of a helical phase
structure and doughnut intensity profile, have been widely studied in fiber-optic …

Data information transfer using complex optical fields: a review and perspective

J Wang - Chinese Optics Letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Tailored complex optical fields, may find applications in optical manipulation, imaging,
microscopy, quantum information processing, and optical communications. Here, we focus …

Theoretical analyses on orbital angular momentum modes in conventional graded-index multimode fibre

S Chen, J Wang - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes are another mode basis to represent spatial
modes. There have been increasing interests in exploiting OAM modes in specialty fibres. In …

Propagation stability in optical fibers: role of path memory and angular momentum

Z Ma, S Ramachandran - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
With growing interest in the spatial dimension of light, multimode fibers, which support
eigenmodes with unique spatial and polarization attributes, have experienced resurgent …

All-fiber function devices for twisted lights

W Zhou, H Cao, J Du, J Wang - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Lights carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM), also called twisted lights, have been
applied in fields of optical manipulation, imaging, quantum communication, and mode …

Integrated structured light manipulation

J Wang, K Li, Z Quan - Photonics Insights, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Structured light, also known as tailored light, shaped light, sculpted light, or custom light,
refers to a series of special light beams with spatially variant amplitudes and phases …

Amplification of 18 OAM modes in a ring-core erbium-doped fiber with low differential modal gain

J Ma, F **a, S Chen, S Li, J Wang - Optics Express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We theoretically propose two orbital angular momentum (OAM) erbium-doped ring-core fiber
(RCF) amplifiers capable of providing relatively uniform gain for 22 modes with 18 OAM …