Near-perfect sorting of orbital angular momentum and angular position states of light

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 24444-24449

  O'Sullivan, Malcolm N ^a   Mirhosseini, Mohammad ^a   Malik, Mehul ^a   Boyd, Robert W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR POSITIONS; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; IMPROVED MUTUAL INFORMATION; LOG-POLAR; MODE DISCRIMINATION; OPTICAL TRANSFORM; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; REDUCED CROSS-TALK; STATES OF LIGHT;

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

EID: 84868259946     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.024444     Document Type: Article

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