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 …

Few-mode fiber coupling efficiency for free-space optical communication

X Fan, D Wang, J Cheng, J Yang, J Ma - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Few-mode fiber is a significant component of free-space optical communication at the
receiver to obtain achievable high coupling efficiency. A theoretical coupling model from the …

Spatial mode analysis of an elliptical-core, few-mode, optical fiber for MIMO-less space-division-multiplexing

G Milione, E Ip, MJ Li, J Stone, G Peng… - 2016 Optical Fiber …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We measure the mode coupling matrix for a 0.5 km elliptical-core few-mode fiber supporting
six spatial modes (HG00, HG01, HG10, HG02, HG20, and HG11) at 980nm. We demonstrate …

[HTML][HTML] Aiming for high-capacity multi-modal free-space optical transmission leveraging complete modal basis sets

Z Hu, Y Li, Z Chen, DM Benton, AAI Ali, M Patel… - Optics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Free-space optical (FSO) communication has gained much interest due to its capability of
providing not only a cost-efficient solution where the optical fiber is too expensive or too …

Photopolymerization with light fields possessing orbital angular momentum: generation of helical microfibers

J Lee, Y Arita, S Toyoshima, K Miyamoto… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Photopolymerization is a powerful technique to create arbitrary micro-objects with a high
spatial resolution. Importantly, to date all photopolymerization studies have been performed …

Single-wavelength transmission at 1.1-Tbit/s net data rate over a multi-modal free-space optical link using commercial devices

Z Hu, Y Li, DM Benton, AAI Ali, M Patel, AD Ellis - Optics letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We employ commercial mode-selective photonic lanterns to implement mode multiplexing
and demultiplexing for high-capacity free-space optical communications. Moreover, we …

High-dimensional encryption in optical fibers using spatial modes of light and machine learning

MLJ Lollie, F Mostafavi, N Bhusal… - Machine Learning …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The ability to engineer the spatial wavefunction of photons has enabled a variety of quantum
protocols for communication, sensing, and information processing. These protocols exploit …

Evaluating the coupling efficiency of OAM beams into ring-core optical fibers

S Rojas-Rojas, G Cañas, G Saavedra, ES Gómez… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In optical communications, space-division multiplexing is a promising strategy to augment
the fiber network capacity. It relies on modern fiber designs that support the propagation of …

Modal decomposition of fiber modes based on direct far-field measurements at two different distances with a multi-variable optimization algorithm

B Kim, J Na, J Kim, H Kim, Y Jeong - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We present a novel method for modal decomposition of a composite beam guided by a large-
mode-area fiber by means of direct far-field pattern measurements with a multi-variable …

Demonstration of 10-channel mode-and polarization-division multiplexed free-space optical transmission with successive interference cancellation DSP

Y Li, Z Hu, DM Benton, A Ali, M Patel, AD Ellis - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate 10-channel mode-division multiplexed free-space optical
transmission with five spatial modes, each carrying 19.6925-Gbaud dual-polarization …