Multiplexing of spatial modes in the mid-IR region

Lucas Gailele; Loyiso Maweza; Angela Dudley; Bienvenu Ndagano; Carmelo Rosales-Guzman; Andrew Forbes

doi:10.1117/12.2256085

20 February 2017 Multiplexing of spatial modes in the mid-IR region

Lucas Gailele, Loyiso Maweza, Angela Dudley, Bienvenu Ndagano, Carmelo Rosales-Guzman, Andrew Forbes

Proceedings Volume 10090, Laser Resonators, Microresonators, and Beam Control XIX; 100900Z (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2256085
Event: SPIE LASE, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Traditional optical communication systems optimize multiplexing in polarization and wavelength both trans- mitted in fiber and free-space to attain high bandwidth data communication. Yet despite these technologies, we are expected to reach a bandwidth ceiling in the near future. Communications using orbital angular momentum (OAM) carrying modes offers infinite dimensional states, providing means to increase link capacity by multiplexing spatially overlapping modes in both the azimuthal and radial degrees of freedom. OAM modes are multiplexed and de-multiplexed by the use of spatial light modulators (SLM). Implementation of complex amplitude modulation is employed on laser beams phase and amplitude to generate Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) modes. Modal decomposition is employed to detect these modes due to their orthogonality as they propagate in space. We demonstrate data transfer by sending images as a proof-of concept in a lab-based scheme. We demonstrate the creation and detection of OAM modes in the mid-IR region as a precursor to a mid-IR free-space communication link.

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Lucas Gailele, Loyiso Maweza, Angela Dudley, Bienvenu Ndagano, Carmelo Rosales-Guzman, and Andrew Forbes "Multiplexing of spatial modes in the mid-IR region", Proc. SPIE 10090, Laser Resonators, Microresonators, and Beam Control XIX, 100900Z (20 February 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2256085

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