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 - 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 …

[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 …

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 …

The orbital angular momentum of a turbulent atmosphere and its impact on propagating structured light fields

A Klug, I Nape, A Forbes - New Journal of Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
When structured light is propagated through the atmosphere, turbulence results in modal
scattering and distortions. An extensively studied example is that of light carrying orbital …

Enhanced atmospheric turbulence resiliency with successive interference cancellation DSP in mode division multiplexing free-space optical links

Y Li, Z Chen, Z Hu, DM Benton, AAI Ali… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We experimentally demonstrate the enhanced atmospheric turbulence resiliency in a 137.8
Gbit/s/mode mode-division multiplexing free-space optical communication link through the …

[HTML][HTML] A space division multiplexed free-space-optical communication system that can auto-locate and fully self align with a remote transceiver

MM Abadi, MA Cox, RE Alsaigh, S Viola, A Forbes… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Free-Space Optical (FSO) systems offer the ability to distribute high speed digital
links into remote and rural communities where terrain, installation cost or infrastructure …

Adaptive transceiver design for high-capacity multi-modal free-space optical communications with commercial devices and atmospheric turbulence

Z Hu, Z Chen, Y Li, DM Benton, AAI Ali… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, to achieve higher robustness against atmospheric turbulence for high-capacity
free-space optical (FSO) communications, an adaptive multi-modal FSO transceiver has …

Control of the orbital angular momentum via radial numbers of structured Laguerre–Gaussian beams

A Volyar, E Abramochkin, Y Akimova, M Bretsko - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We found that the internal perturbations of the structured Laguerre–Gaussian beam in the
form of two-parametric harmonic excitations of the Hermite–Gaussian (HG) modes in its …

A Robust Basis for Multi‐Bit Optical Communication with Vectorial Light

K Singh, I Nape, WT Buono, A Dudley… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing the information capacity of communication channels is a pressing need, driven by
growing data demands and the consequent impending data crunch with existing modulation …