Title :
Fibers supporting OAM and their applications
Author :
Ramachandran, Siddharth
Author_Institution :
Boston Univ., Boston, MA, USA
Abstract :
We describe optical fibers that can generate, and stably propagate over km-distances, light beams that possess orbital angular momentum. We review applications of such fibers in areas ranging from telecommunications to nanoscale microscopy.
Keywords :
amplitude modulation; light propagation; optical fibre communication; optical fibres; optical modulation; optical vortices; OAM; light beams; optical fibers; optical vortices; orbital angular momentum; Abstracts; Distance measurement; Educational institutions; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical vortices;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.M3F.4
