DocumentCode
733979
Title
Q-plates for switchable excitation of fiber OAM modes
Author
Gregg, P. ; Mirhosseini, M. ; Rubano, A. ; Marrucci, L. ; Karimi, E. ; Boyd, R. ; Ramachandran, S.
Author_Institution
Boston Univ., Boston, MA, USA
fYear
2015
fDate
10-15 May 2015
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We demonstrate that a |q|=1/2 plate plus polarization optics can tunably excite all linear combinations of |l|=1 fiber OAM modes with up to ~30 dB purity, enabling switch fabrics in fiber-OAM networks and disentangling of degenerate mode mixing effects in long fibers.
Keywords
angular momentum; optical fibre networks; optical fibre polarisation; optical retarders; optical switches; optical tuning; Q-plates; degenerate mode mixing effects; fiber OAM modes; fiber-OAM networks; polarization optics; switch fabrics; switchable excitation; Couplings; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical switches;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location
San Jose, CA
Type
conf
Filename
7184423
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