High-volume optical vortex multiplexing and de-multiplexing for free-space optical communication

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 482-492

  Wang, Zhongxi ^a   Zhang, N ^b   Yuan, X C ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MULTIPLEXING; VORTEX FLOW;

CONVENTIONAL ALGORITHMS; ENCODING PROCESS; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; HIGH-SPEED; INFORMATION DENSITY; MULTIPLEXING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL VORTICES; SIGNAL CHANNELS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 78751553686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.000482     Document Type: Article

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