Title :
Q-plates for switchable excitation of fiber OAM modes
Author :
Gregg, P. ; Mirhosseini, M. ; Rubano, A. ; Marrucci, L. ; Karimi, E. ; Boyd, R. ; Ramachandran, S.
Author_Institution :
Boston Univ., Boston, MA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate that a |q|=1/2 plate plus polarization optics can tunably excite all linear combinations of |l|=1 fiber OAM modes with up to ~30 dB purity, enabling switch fabrics in fiber-OAM networks and disentangling of degenerate mode mixing effects in long fibers.
Keywords :
angular momentum; optical fibre networks; optical fibre polarisation; optical retarders; optical switches; optical tuning; Q-plates; degenerate mode mixing effects; fiber OAM modes; fiber-OAM networks; polarization optics; switch fabrics; switchable excitation; Couplings; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical switches;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
