Title :
Experimental demonstration of an apodized aperture for receiving a data-carrying orbital-angular-momentum beam
Author :
Ahmed, Nova ; Guodong Xie ; Yongxiong Ren ; Long Li ; Hao Huang ; Yan Yan ; Willner, Alan E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate an apodized aperture for receiving OAM beams carrying 50-Gbaud QPSK channels. The performance in terms of power in desired mode and leakage to neighboring modes is compared with a hard aperture.
Keywords :
angular momentum; optical images; quadrature phase shift keying; 50-Gbaud QPSK channels; OAM beams; apodized aperture; data-carrying orbital-angular-momentum beam; hard aperture; Apertures; Crosstalk; Limiting; Optical beams; Receivers; Signal to noise ratio; Spirals;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
