• DocumentCode
    2239082
  • Title

    Long-range fiber-transmission of photons with orbital angular momentum

  • Author

    Bozinovic, Nenad ; Kristensen, Poul ; Ramachandran, Siddharth

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Boston Univ., Boston, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate propagation of light possessing orbital angular momentum over record fiber-lengths (~km) with minimal cross-talk (<;20-dB). This yields a novel degree of freedom for encoding information in fibers for quantum or classical communication links.
  • Keywords
    angular momentum theory; light propagation; optical crosstalk; optical fibres; photons; quantum communication; classical communication links; crosstalk; encoding information; light propagation; long-range fiber-transmission; orbital angular momentum; photons; quantum communication links; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical vortices; Photonics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5950577