Optical communications using orbital angular momentum beams

Advances in Optics and Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 66-106

  Willner, Alan E ^a   Huang, Hao ^a   Yan, Yan ^a   Ren, Yongxiong ^a   Ahmed, Nisar ^a   Xie, Guodong ^a   Bao, Changjing ^a   Li, Long ^a   Cao, Yinwen ^a   Zhao, Zhe ^a   Wang, Jian ^b   Lavery, Martin P J ^c   Tur, Moshe ^d   Ramachandran, Siddharth ^e   Molisch, Andreas F ^a   Ashrafi, Nima ^f   Ashrafi, Solyman ^f  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e Boston University   (United States)

^f NxGen Partners   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION;

FIBER OPTIC COMMUNICATIONS; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; MULTIPLE DATA STREAMS; MULTIPLEXING/DE-MULTIPLEXING; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; RF COMMUNICATION; SYSTEM CAPACITY; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84964237540     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19438206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AOP.7.000066     Document Type: Article

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