Long-Range Fiber Transmission of Optical Vortices
Files
Poster
Date
2011-07-21
DOI
Authors
Bozinovic, Nenad
Kristensen, Poul
Ramachandran, Siddharth
Version
OA Version
Citation
Abstract
We use specialty fiber (“vortex fiber”), to create and propagate orbital angular momentum states over ~kilometer lengths in telecom band (~1550nm). The spiral phase structure of the vortex beams was confirmed by interference with a Gaussian reference. This result is an important step toward achieving long-range classical and quantum communication links using orbital angular momentum of light.