Orbital angular momentum beams for high-capacity communications

AE Willner, H Song, K Zou, H Zhou… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There is a growing interest in structured light, especially orbital angular momentum (OAM)
beams, due to its unique amplitude and phase structure. Multiple orthogonal OAM beams …

Sensing and coupling of optical channels in dynamic atmospheric turbulence using OAM beamlets for improved power and data transmission

M Lemon, E Robertson, J Free, K Dai, JK Miller… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Propagation of laser light is distorted in the presence of atmospheric turbulence. This poses
an issue for sensing, free-space optical communications, and transmission of power. The …

Spatiotemporal evolution of orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams based on a uniform circular frequency diverse array (UC-FDA)

J Ma, J Cai, Z Zheng, X Gao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radar imaging based on orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams has become a significant
approach to realize high resolution and multidimensional target detection. The irradiation of …

Demonstration of turbulence-resilient self-homodyne 12-Gbit/s 16-QAM free-space optical communications using a transmitted pilot tone

H Zhou, R Zhang, X Su, Y Duan, H Song… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Free-space optical (FSO) communication links can benefit from recovering both amplitude-
and phase-encoded data (eg, quadrature-amplitude-modulation, QAM) by mixing a local …

Demonstration of 120 Gbit/s turbulence-resilient coherent optical communication employing cylindrical vector beam multiplexing

Y Yu, M Xu, M Pu, J Ding, S Chen, Y Zhang, M Zhou… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Free space optical (FSO) communication has gained widespread attention due to its
advantages, including high confidentiality, high communication capacity, and no limitation of …

Pressure and phase characteristics of orbital angular momentum multiplexed perfect acoustic-vortexes

W Yue, W Chen, Y Liu, T Feng, G Guo, Q Ma - Applied Acoustics, 2024 - Elsevier
Profiting from the fixed vortex-radius, perfect acoustic-vortex (PAV) beams can improve the
efficiency of orbital angular momentum (OAM) communication. While, characteristics of OAM …

Advances in Multi-Channel Mid-IR Free-Space Optical Communications

AE Willner, H Zhou, Y Duan, Z Jiang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Free-space optical (FSO) communications in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) wavelength region
has gained increasing interest due, in part, to the lower atmospheric loss than at lower …

Frequency-doubled high-power optical vortex beam with sub 500 fs pulse duration

A Loescher, C Röcker, F Bienert, T Graf… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We report on the generation of high-power ultrashort-pulsed optical vortex beams (VBs) with
orbital angular momentum (OAM) of+ 1 in the infrared (IR) and+ 2 in the visible (VIS) spectral …

Turbulence mitigation of four mode-division-multiplexed QPSK channels in a pilot-assisted self-coherent free-space optical link using a photodetector array and DSP …

H Zhou, H Song, X Su, Y Duan, K Zou, R Zhang… - Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
In this Letter, we demonstrate turbulence mitigation of four mode-division-multiplexing
(MDM) quadrature-phase-shift-keying (QPSK) channels in a pilot-assisted self-coherent free …

Sensing optical phase distortion via beatnote detection of a dual probe beam encoded with orbital angular momentum

NA Ferlic, AE Laux, BM Cochenour, LJ Mullen… - Applied Optics, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Laser based optical applications such as imaging, ranging, and wireless communications
are susceptible to environmental distortions. Inferring the strength of these optical distortions …