Towards higher-dimensional structured light

C He, Y Shen, A Forbes - Light: Science & Applications, 2022 - nature.com
Structured light refers to the arbitrarily tailoring of optical fields in all their degrees of freedom
(DoFs), from spatial to temporal. Although orbital angular momentum (OAM) is perhaps the …

[HTML][HTML] The digital divide in online education: Inequality in digital readiness of students and schools

HG Van De Werfhorst, E Kessenich, S Geven - Computers and Education …, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has disordered the educational process across the globe, as
schools suddenly had to provide their teaching in an online environment. One question that …

A key 6G challenge and opportunity—Connecting the base of the pyramid: A survey on rural connectivity

E Yaacoub, MS Alouini - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Providing connectivity to around half of the world population living in rural or underprivileged
areas is a tremendous challenge, but, at the same time, a unique opportunity. Access to the …

Robust structured light in atmospheric turbulence

A Klug, C Peters, A Forbes - Advanced Photonics, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
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 …

Roadmap to free space optics

A Trichili, MA Cox, BS Ooi, MS Alouini - Journal of the Optical Society …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
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 in turbulence

MA Cox, N Mphuthi, I Nape, N Mashaba… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical communication is an integral part of the modern economy, having all but replaced
electronic communication systems. Future growth in bandwidth appears to be on the horizon …

Digital divide and environmental pressure: A countermeasure on the embodied carbon emissions in FDI

L Wang, TS Ramsey - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2024 - Elsevier
Carbon emission transfer in FDI undermines develo** countries' emission reduction
targets. This study utilized a firm heterogeneity strategy to illuminate the impact of domestic …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum mechanics with patterns of light: progress in high dimensional and multidimensional entanglement with structured light

A Forbes, I Nape - AVS Quantum Science, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Quantum mechanics is now a mature topic dating back more than a century. During its
scientific development, it fostered many technological advances that now are integrated into …

A systematic review of the challenges of e-learning implementation in sub-Saharan African Countries: 2016-2022

TMD Van Der Merwe, M Serote… - Electronic Journal of e …, 2023 - academic-publishing.org
Even a cursory review of the research literature over the past two decades will reveal many
e-learning implementation challenges facing sub-Saharan Africa Higher Education …

Understanding the impact of the digital divide on South African students in higher educational institutions

ST Faloye, N Ajayi - … Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and …, 2022 - journals.co.za
The integration of technology into educational systems has brought about changes in the
style of teaching and learning. Nowadays, educational institutions are adopting technologies …