• DocumentCode
    712156
  • Title

    Experimental demonstration of free-space optical communications using OFDM-QPSK/16QAM-carrying fractional orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing

  • Author

    Jian Wang ; Jun Liu ; Shuhui Li ; Long Zhu ; Chao Li ; Ming Luo ; Qi Yang ; Yu Shaohua

  • Author_Institution
    Wuhan Nat. Lab. for Optoelectron., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    22-26 March 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We report free-space optical communications exploiting fractional orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing. Using OFDM-QPSK/16QAM signals over fractional OAM beams with varied channel spacing, fractional OAM communications are demonstrated in the experiment even with a small OAM channel spacing of 0.6.
  • Keywords
    OFDM modulation; angular momentum; optical links; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; OAM multiplexing; OFDM-QPSK-16QAM; fractional OAM communications; fractional orbital angular momentum; free space optical communication; varied OAM channel spacing; Adaptive optics; Demultiplexing; Optical beams; Optical modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2015
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7121489