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 …

Coherent self-control of free-space optical beams with integrated silicon photonic meshes

M Milanizadeh, F Toso, G Ferrari, T Jonuzi… - Photonics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In technologies operating at light wavelengths for wireless communication, sensor networks,
positioning, and ranging, a dynamic coherent control and manipulation of light fields is an …

Free space optical communication receiver based on a spatial demultiplexer and a photonic integrated coherent combining circuit

V Billault, J Bourderionnet, JP Mazellier… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Atmospheric turbulence can generate scintillation or beam wandering phenomena that
impairs free space optical (FSO) communication. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate …

Modal diversity for robust free-space optical communications

MA Cox, L Cheng, C Rosales-Guzmán, A Forbes - Physical Review Applied, 2018 - APS
Free-space communication links are severely affected by atmospheric turbulence, which
causes degradation in the transmitted signal. One of the most common solutions to …

All-fiber photonic lantern multimode optical receiver with coherent adaptive optics beam combining

B Zhang, J Sun, C Lao, CH Betters, A Argyros… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
A multimode optical receiver for free space optical communications (FSOC) based on a
photonic lantern and adaptive optics coherent beam combining (CBC) of the lantern's single …

Turbulence-resilient pilot-assisted self-coherent free-space optical communications using automatic optoelectronic mixing of many modes

R Zhang, N Hu, H Zhou, K Zou, X Su, Y Zhou… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In free-space optical communications that use both amplitude and phase data modulation
(for example, in quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM)), the data are typically recovered …

Multi-aperture all-fiber active coherent beam combining for free-space optical communication receivers

Y Yang, C Geng, F Li, G Huang, X Li - Optics Express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Multi-aperture receiver with optical combining architecture is an effective approach to
overcome the turbulent atmosphere effect on the performance of the free-space optical …

Determining the optimal communication channels of arbitrary optical systems using integrated photonic processors

SM SeyedinNavadeh, M Milanizadeh, F Zanetto… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Modes of propagation through an optical system are generally defined as the eigensolutions
of the wave equation in the system. When propagation occurs through complicated or highly …

GPU accelerated toolbox for real-time beam-shaping in multimode fibres

M Plöschner, B Straka, K Dholakia, T Čižmár - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We present a GPU accelerated toolbox for shaping the light propagation through multimode
fibre using a spatial light modulator (SLM). The light is modulated before being coupled to …

Experimental demonstration of multi-aperture digital coherent combining over a 3.2-km free-space link

DJ Geisler, TM Yarnall, CM Schieler… - Free-Space Laser …, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The next generation free-space optical communications infrastructure will need to support a
wide variety of space-to-ground links. As a result of the limited size, weight, and power on …