Influence of atmospheric turbulence on optical communications using orbital angular momentum for encoding

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 13195-13200

  Malik, Mehul ^a   O'Sullivan, Malcolm ^a   Rodenburg, Brandon ^a   Mirhosseini, Mohammad ^a   Leach, Jonathan ^b   Lavery, Martin P J ^c   Padgett, Miles J ^c   Boyd, Robert W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DEGRADATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

CURRENT TECHNOLOGY; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; KOLMOGOROV; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

CHANNEL CAPACITY;

EID: 84863771901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.013195     Document Type: Article

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