Self-healing of structured light: a review

Y Shen, S Pidishety, I Nape, A Dudley - Journal of Optics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Self-healing of light refers to the ability of a light field to recover its structure after being
damaged by a partial obstruction placed in its propagation path. Here, we will give a …

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 …

Free-space propagation of spatiotemporal optical vortices

SW Hancock, S Zahedpour, A Goffin, HM Milchberg - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) are a new type of optical orbital angular momentum
(OAM) with optical phase circulation in space–time. In prior work [Phys. Rev. X. 6, 031037 …

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 …

Machine learning approach to OAM beam demultiplexing via convolutional neural networks

T Doster, AT Watnik - Applied optics, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams allow for increased channel capacity in free-space
optical communication. Conventionally, these OAM beams are multiplexed together at a …

Spatiotemporal torquing of light

SW Hancock, S Zahedpour, A Goffin, HM Milchberg - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
We demonstrate the controlled spatiotemporal transfer of transverse orbital angular
momentum (OAM) to electromagnetic waves: the spatiotemporal torquing of light. This is a …

Efficient recognition of the propagated orbital angular momentum modes in turbulences with the convolutional neural network

Z Wang, MI Dedo, K Guo, K Zhou, F Shen… - IEEE Photonics …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The vortex beam carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) has attracted great attentions in
optical communication field, which can extend the channel capacity of communication …

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 …

Top three intelligent algorithms for oam mode recognitions in optical communications

B Wang, X Zhang, SAA Shah, B Merabet… - Engineering …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Vortex optical communication employing orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been a hot
research field in recent years. Thanks to the orthogonality of the OAM, several multiplexing …

Free-space optical communication with quasi-ring Airy vortex beam under limited-size receiving aperture and atmospheric turbulence

L Zhu, A Wang, M Deng, B Lu, X Guo - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Vortex beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM), which feature helical wavefronts,
have been regarded as an alternative degree of freedom for free-space optical (FSO) …