Structured light

A Forbes, M de Oliveira, MR Dennis - Nature Photonics, 2021 - nature.com
All light has structure, but only recently has it been possible to control it in all its degrees of
freedom and dimensions, fuelling fundamental advances and applications alike. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] Orbital angular momentum of light for communications

AE Willner, K Pang, H Song, K Zou, H Zhou - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Revealing the invariance of vectorial structured light in complex media

I Nape, K Singh, A Klug, W Buono… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Optical aberrations place fundamental limits on the achievable resolution with focusing and
imaging. In the context of structured light, optical imperfections and misalignments and …

Roadmap to free space optics

A Trichili, MA Cox, BS Ooi, MS Alouini - JOSA B, 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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Separating arbitrary free-space beams with an integrated photonic processor

M Milanizadeh, SM SeyedinNavadeh… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Free-space optics naturally offers multiple-channel communications and sensing exploitable
in many applications. The different optical beams will, however, generally be overlapping at …

[HTML][HTML] Atmospheric turbulence strength distribution along a propagation path probed by longitudinally structured optical beams

H Zhou, X Su, Y Duan, H Song, K Zou, R Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Atmospheric turbulence can cause critical problems in many applications. To effectively
avoid or mitigate turbulence, knowledge of turbulence strength at various distances could be …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum structured light in high dimensions

I Nape, B Sephton, P Ornelas, C Moodley, A Forbes - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Structured light has become topical of late, where controlling light in all its degrees of
freedom has offered novel states of light long predicted, enhanced functionality in …