Reconfigurable 2 × 2 orbital angular momentum based optical switching of 50-Gbaud QPSK channels

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 756-761

  Ahmed, Nisar ^a   Huang, Hao ^a   Ren, Yongxiong ^a   Yan, Yan ^a   Xie, Guodong ^a   Tur, Moshe ^b   Willner, Alan E ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL BEAMS; OPTICAL SWITCHING; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; RECONFIGURABLE; SWITCHED BEAMS; SWITCHING OPERATIONS;

MULTIPLEXING;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

EID: 84892648279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.000756     Document Type: Article

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