Encoding information as orbital angular momentum states of light for wireless optical communications

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Wu, Jingzhi ^a   Li, Hui ^b   Li, Yangjun ^a  

^a NORTH UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Orbital angular momentum; Pseudo nondiffracting beams; Wireless optical communications

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; DATA PROCESSING; LIGHT; SIGNAL ENCODING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PSEUDO-NONDIFFRACTING BEAMS; WIRELESS OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 34247248237     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2431800     Document Type: Article

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