Title :
Degenerate Mode-Group Division Multiplexing
Author :
Carpenter, Joel ; Thomsen, Benn C. ; Wilkinson, Timothy D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng., Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Abstract :
A reconfigurable mode demultiplexer based around a liquid crystal spatial light modulator is demonstrated to optically demultiplex modes that share a propagation constant as separate modal channels using a single shared phase mask per polarization for all channels.
Keywords :
demultiplexing equipment; liquid crystal devices; masks; multiplexing; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; spatial light modulators; degenerate mode-group division multiplexing; liquid crystal spatial light modulator; modal channels; phase mask; propagation constant; reconfigurable mode demultiplexer; Demultiplexing; Multiplexing; Optical fibers; Propagation constant; Multiplexing; space division multiplexing; spatial light modulators (SLMs);
Journal_Title :
Lightwave Technology, Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JLT.2012.2206562
